'Where' (Ubi) is the circumscription of a body arising from the circumscription of place.
c. 1270
Style is the physiognomy of the soul.
63-64 AD
As everyone has taken on a particular role in the affair [...], I have eagerly vied for that of letting you know of the good successes.
1662
While sleeping, I accomplished heroic feats.
1819
Copper alloy dagger blade
ca. 2200–1800 BCE
There is no surer guard for a leader than the firm and sincere affection of those under him; for when the people [...] have become accustomed not to fear the one who commands them, but to fear for him, then all ears, all eyes are open to watch over his safety.
100-120 AD
Every State has the full right to break the alliance whenever it wishes. And it cannot be accused of cunning or perfidy [...].
1677
Despotic power is an absolute and arbitrary power that one man has over another, which he can use to take away his life whenever he pleases.
1690
There is no difference between letting one's passion be seen, and lending certain weapons for others to make themselves our master.
1636
Lower right corner of a marble sarcophagus, illustrating the discovery of Achilles by Odysseus on the island of Skyros
ca. 160–180 CE
It often happens that we are esteemed in proportion as we esteem ourselves.
1746
When he governs, the superman does not bother with details [...]. He only deals with the handle [...], and avoids getting in contact with affairs. From on high, his gaze dominates everything.
4th century BC
He is master of himself and lives happily who can say each day: 'I have lived'.
1580
The crime that must be punished most severely is the one against which it is most difficult to guard oneself. We can hide from strangers, but there are no secrets from intimacy.
79 BC
The Sofa
ca. 1894–96
[Mature men] do not trust the first person they meet; nor do they distrust everyone, but their judgments are in accordance with the truth.
329-323 BC
[Certain alliances] bring more the glamour of a great name than actual help.
1513-1519
If you want an end, you must also want the means. If you want slaves, you are a fool to raise them as masters.
1888
There is nothing false, nothing unworthy of being said and recommended in writing for times to come.
1574
Limestone upper body of a woman
late 6th century BCE
Is opinion always true, or sometimes true and sometimes false?
c. 360 BC
Such is the blessed condition of the intelligible world that in doing nothing it does great things, and in remaining within itself it produces important works.
c. 253-270 AD
In small towns, anyone who seeks to emancipate themselves from received customs meets with resistance that is sometimes very strong.
1893
It is the things whose use makes their necessity felt that should be the rule for the employment of men [...].
1776
Terracotta woman
ca. 600–480 BCE
There are properly only two kinds of governments, one good, the other bad.
1772
The laws [of some] are arranged so as to fight against the natural defects of democracy, [while those of others] seem, on the contrary, made to develop them.
1835-1840
While the imitation of the ancients was to become the great literary rule, Saint-Amant frankly admitted that he knew little Latin and even less Greek [...].
1926
If men were very enlightened, universal approval would be a reason: but it is quite the contrary.
1674-1675
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
1884
Bring me whatever drachma you wish, and I will judge what it is worth.
c. 108 AD
...to occupy oneself only with imitating those who, in looking at the greenness of a wood, the colors of a flower, the flight of a bird [...] persuade themselves that they are thinking of nothing.
1643-1649
Space exists only in my head; but empirically my head is in space.
1819
I have, from an early age, distrusted all the decisions of philosophers: & I have always felt more inclined to dispute their dogmas than to embrace them.
1742
A Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters and an Imaginary Castle
ca. 1615–20
True morality has only one measure for judging men's faults; the most serious are those that do the most harm to society.
1766
Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
1851/1852
The labyrinth is a very ingenious emblem of the nature of mechanics in general.
1620
I have lost all my happiness; [...] He could change!
1752
Lady Mary Berkeley
ca. 1700
The more [ideas] extend to a great multitude, the fewer elements they contain specific to each individual.
1817
Infallibly, good produces good and evil produces evil in the realm of the purely spiritual.
1947
Religion is what must fill, in beings endowed with reflection, a potential deficit in the attachment to life.
1932
When the possessors of a privilege make concessions to those who are deprived of it, it is rarely for any other reason than because the latter acquire the power to extort them.
1869
Fragment of a terracotta relief of a woman and child
mid-4th century BCE
By what inconceivable mechanism is feeling throughout my body, and thought in my head alone?
1764
One can always determine the most probable and the most certain as far as it is possible to know from the given data (ex datis).
1686
The precept: You shall not lie [...], taken internally as a principle in philosophy [...] would not only have the advantage of establishing a perpetual peace therein, but also of ensuring its future forever.
1796
The mystery of the resurrection [...].
1841
An Early Summer Morning in the Forest of Fontainebleau
probably 1861