#pre

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#doing #far #force #law #man

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#cases #doubtful #interpretation #liberal #more

At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#back #boarding #boarding school #brown #chest

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his? ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#insect #left #our #present #tragedies

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#distant #enemy #gate #preferable

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#ideas #much #obsessions #people #represents

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#interest #misfortune #others #spread #us

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame. ↗

— Donatella Versace

#fame #italian #sleep

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#assigns #because #enough #feel #few

A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#america #best #british #compilation #for the people