“There are men too, who have not virtue enough to be angry...He who dares not offend cannot be honest.” Paine, Thomas. Thomas Paine:...

“…the honesty of the press is as great an object to society as the freedom of it.” Paine, Thomas. Thomas Paine: Collected Writings. Eric...

There are those in the World who would not wrong a Neighbour, but make no Scruple of cheating the King. The Reverse however does not...

The extremely undesirable “humanity,” as it is now called, which consists of mutual praise without any regard to quality, is unseemly,...

Seneca, …“I persist in praising not the life that I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling”…

Epictetus, "What do you still lack? If, therefore, I show you that what you lack are things most necessary and important for happiness, and that hitherto you have devoted your attention to everything but what was appropriate for you to do, and if I add the colophon, saying: You know neither what God is, nor what man is, nor what good, nor what evil is – if I say that you are ignorant of these other matters you may possibly endure that; but if I say that you do not understand