"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value...." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.”

“Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.”

“To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child”

“There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon.”

“Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep alive in the Eastern as well as the Western half of our continent those ideas of human dignity which Europe gave to the world. Let us therefore resolve to keep the lamps of freedom burning bright so that all who look to the West from the shadows of the East need not doubt that we remain true to those human and spiritual values that lie at the heart of European civilization.”

“No one who lives in error is free.”

“Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.”

“In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.”

“The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.”