Paine commenting on the motivations of Americans who did not support the Revolution: Though I would carefully avoid giving unnecessary...

I was so much dissatisfied with Warren’s dilatory movements in the battle of White Oak Road and in his failure to reach Sheridan in time,...

Pyrrho the philosoper in the Conceits says: “But the apparent is omnipotent wherever it goes” and in his work On the Senses, “I do not...

The philosopher Cleanthes said after he was reproached with cowardice, he replied, “That is why I so seldom go wrong.” Diogenes. Diogenes...

This prophecy of Galba's late, brief principate was based on Tiberius' knowledge of Chaldaean astrology, taught him at Rhodes by Thrasyllus. He had tested Thrasyllus' knowledge in this way. When seeking occult guidance Tiberius would retire to the top of his house, with a single tough, illiterate former slave as confidant. Those astrologers whose skill Tiberius had decided to test were escorted to him by this man over pathless, precipitous ground; for the house overhung a cli

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