Monday, January 03, 2005
“And of all the plagues with which mankind are curst, ecclesiastic tyranny’s the worst.”
- Daniel Defoe (c.1661 – 1731), English writer and critic: “The True-born Englishman”, 1701.
“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.”
- William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616), English dramatist, poet and actor: “As You Like It”, 1599.
“Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.”
- Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65), Roman philosopher, poet, dramatist, essayist, rhetorician and statesman : “Epistulae Morales”
“People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have, for example, the freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as compensation.”
- Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855), Danish philosopher and theologian: in “The Faber Book of Aphorisms”, 1962.
- Daniel Defoe (c.1661 – 1731), English writer and critic: “The True-born Englishman”, 1701.
“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.”
- William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616), English dramatist, poet and actor: “As You Like It”, 1599.
“Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.”
- Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65), Roman philosopher, poet, dramatist, essayist, rhetorician and statesman : “Epistulae Morales”
“People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have, for example, the freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as compensation.”
- Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855), Danish philosopher and theologian: in “The Faber Book of Aphorisms”, 1962.
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