Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger famous quotes

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What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]
-- Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

#Happiness #Men #Liberty
Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!
-- Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

#Believe #Shadow #Chance
By all means must we fly; not with our feet, however, but with our hands.
-- Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

#Mean #Hands #Feet
I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge. If this be a just remark, it is unwise and improvident to vest in the general government a power to borrow at discretion, without any limitation or restriction.
-- Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

#Country #Government #Debt
The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the happiness and aggrandizement of one, or a few, and to this the public felicity, and every other interest must submit.
-- Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

#Yield #Government #Felicity
I have not come to praise Caesar, but to bury him.
-- Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

#Praise
The origin of society, then, is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over another, but in the united consent of those who associate.
-- Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

#Exercise #Men #Natural

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness
God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
No one man is superior to the game.
Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.
The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty
It must be all the same to the citizens ("ressortissants", Fr.) of a country that their governing (those in power) speak such language or such other ("telle langue ou telle autre", Fr.); likewise that it must be all the same to them that these adhere to such or such religion, so long as a full (or complete) liberty is equally garantee for everyone.

Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger famous quotes

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