All go free when multitudes offend.
Original text (Latin)
Original text (Latin)
You have taken from me the one privilege of civil war – the power of granting life to the defeated.
Men are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.
I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.
What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?
Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.
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