Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.
Marcus Tullius CiceroHe who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIn this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.
Marcus Tullius Cicero