Lipsius Quotations

Question 1

Classics-2

Answer 1

The true light comes from the Holy Scripture: but in the pagan writings too, I perceive some scattered sparks.

Question 2

Classics -3

Answer 2

History is the truest education and training for public office

Question 3

Classics -4

Answer 3

Alfonso V the magnanimous: ‘the best counsellors are dead ones’

Question 4

Monarch as example

Answer 4

The whole world shapes itself after the example of the king

Question 5

Monarchy

Answer 5

Every monarchy is fleeting and unsteady. For the duty of ruling all is hard and subjected to fortune

Question 6

Religion - 1

Answer 6

Religion ‘has great power over our minds’

Question 7

Religion -2

Answer 7

How can we be safe if religion is not? Religion, and fear of God are the only things which protect the bonds between men.

Question 8

Religion -3

Answer 8

There is no place for clemency here. Burn, cut, in order that some member perishes rather than the whole body.

Question 9

Flux and deceit

Answer 9

Why be high-minded and courageous? You would better keep on the safe side

Question 10

Flux and Deceit -2

Answer 10

Tiberius - shear rather than skin the herd

Question 11

Flux and deceit -3

Answer 11

I seem to have poured you in generously and, as they say, with full hands, from the double fountain of Prudence; and, that is, a good and pure liquid. Is it allowed that I mix it a little, and add a bit of the sediment of deceit? I think it is.

Question 12

Classics-1

Answer 12

Ancient historians constitute ‘the source of political prudence’