Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.

To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law - a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.

Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.

Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.

The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be folly for another. Who is qualified to judge? Only the universe, which passes the judgment of survival on all peoples.

One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

For no change comes calmly over the world.