The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first instance; while a firm refusal will make them clearly understand that they must treat you more as equals.

They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.

...knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset.

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.