Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE)

"Let Pompey go to his own province; let them both disband their armies; let all persons in Italy lay down their arms; let all fears be removed from the city; let free elections, and the whole republic be resigned to the direction of the senate and Roman people."

• From Julius Caesar's War Commentaries (this version is from Julius Caesar: Complete Works edited by Aulus Hirtius, W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn).

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The Malleus Maleficarum (Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger)

The Malleus Maleficarum (Published 1487)

"From the priesthood arises everything good, and everything evil."

• From The Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger, translated by Montague Summers.

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Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu (Sayings collected from 6th-3rd century BCE)

"Keep death in front
And life to the rear,"

• From The Art of War by Sun Tzu, translated by John Minford (Penguin Classics edition, 2009). The picture of the statue is licensed as 2.0 in the Creative Commons (CC 2.0).

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Agamemnon (from Homer)

Agamemnon (ruler of Mycenae from Homer's epics and leader of the campaign against Troy)

"Keep your courage up and in the
heat of the battle fear nothing but dishonour in each other's
eyes. When warriors fear disgrace, more are saved than killed."

• From The Iliad by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and edited by Peter Jones.

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René Descartes

René Descartes (1596-1650)

"I know that I exist, and I inquire what I am, I whom I know to exist."

• From Meditations on the First Philosophy by René Descartes, translated by Elizabeth Haldane.

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Anna Komnene

Anna Komnene (1083-1153 CE)

"But of course fault-finders stand out of weapon range and the acid darts they fire at the contestants come from their tongues."

• From The Alexiad by Anna Komnene, translated by E. R. A. Sewter. New York: Penguin Books, 2009.

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Virgil

Virgil (70-19 CE)

"Whatever Fortune sends, we master it all
by bearing it all, we must!"

• From Virgil's The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles (Penguin Classics edition, 2010.

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Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE)

"(In my opinion at least) there are three things which an Orator should be able to effect; viz., to inform his hearers, to please them, and to move their passions."

• From Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators translated by E. Jones.

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Black Elk

Black Elk (1863-1950)

"These people were in their own country and were doing no harm. They only wanted to be left alone."

• From Black Elk Speaks, orated by Black Elk and written by John Neihardt.

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Buddha

The Buddha

"There is no fire like passion.
There is no fault like hatred.
There is no pain like the aggregates.
There is no ease surpassing peace."

• From The Dhammapada (Chapter 5) recorded in the 3rd Century BCE, translated by Glenn Wallis. The image of the statue is licensed under Creative Commons 2.0 (CC 2.0)

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Lionel Giles

Lionel Giles (1875-1958)

"Everybody can see superficially how a battle is won; what they cannot see is the long series of plans and combinations which has preceded the battle."

• From commentary in Lionel Giles' translation of Sun Tzu on the Art of War, 1910.

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Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius (Roman Emperor, 121-180 CE)

"If it be not fitting, do it not. If it be not true, speak it not."

• From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Xist Publishing edition). Gold relief picture of Marcus Aurelius is licensed under Creative Commons 2.5 (CC 2.5).

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400 CE)

"Speech failed in him, the cold of death began
Its upward creeping from his feet to numb
The breast, ad he was slowly overcome,
And further still as from his arms there went
The vital power; all was lost and spent.
Only the intellect, and nothing more,
That dwelt within his heart, so sick and sore,
Began to falter when the heart felt death."

• From The Canterbury Tales (The Knight's Tale) by Geoffrey Chaucer, translated into modern English by Nevill Coghill (Penguin Classics edition, 1977). 

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Virgil

Virgil (Roman poet, 70-19 BCE)

"Rumor, quicksilver afoot
and swift on the wing, a monster, horriffic, huge
and under every feather on her body--what a marvel--
an eye that never sleeps and as many tongues as eyes
and as many raucous mouths and ears pricked up for news."

• From Virgil's The Aeneid (Book four), translated by Robert Fagles (Penguin Classics, 2010)

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Murasaki Shikibu

Murasaki Shikibu (c. 11th century Japan)

"I have never known anyone completely worthless. So few in this world are really exceptional, though!"

• From The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, translated by Royall Tyler (Penguin Classics edition).

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Today it is impossible to say for certain why people are really punished: all concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."

• From Friedrich Nietsche's On the Genealogy of Morals, translated by Walter Kaufmann.

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Luo Guanzhong

Luo Guanzhong (Chinese author, 1330-1400 CE)

"In war it is best to attack minds, not cities; psychological warfare is better than fighting with weapons."

• From Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Chapter 87), translated by John Minford.

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"So to Slight Justice and the Opinion of Mankind, we esteem ourselves bound by Obligations of Respect to the Rest of the World, to make known the Justice of our Cause."

• From Thomas Jefferson's Causes and Necessities of Taking Up Arms (1775).

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Erasmus

Erasmus (c. 1466-1536)

"If you wish to be forgiven, you, who have loved what you should have hated and who have hated what you should have loved, must attack the enemy within."

• From Erasmus' "Inner Faith is Better Than Mere Ritual."

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Plato

Plato (c. 427-347 BCE)

"The ultimate punishment for being unwilling to assume authority oneself is to be governed by a worse person, and it is fear of this happening, I think, which prompts good men to assume power occasionally."

• From Plato's Republic, translated by Robin Waterfield.

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Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

"The modern world presents the extraordinary spectacle of almost everybody wishing to prevent or avoid war, and yet war coming remorselessly nearer to almost everybody."

• From Winston Churchills' 1936 speech, "How to Stop War."

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400 CE)

"Age has a great advantage over youth
In wisdom and by custom, that's the truth.
The old may be out-run but not out-reasoned."

• From The Canterbury Tales (The Knight's Tale) by Geoffrey Chaucer, translated into modern English by Nevill Coghill (Penguin Classics edition, 1977).

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Apuleius

Apuleius (125-170 CE)

"See, all of you, mark, learn, and inwardly digest, the lengths to which the frenzy of desire can drive a man."

• From The Golden Ass or Metamorphoses by Apuleius, translated by E. J. Kenney (Penguin Classics Edition).

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