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Lucian of Samosata
“The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid”
Lucian of Samosata, Lucian's True History

Frances Wright
“Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.”
Frances Wright

Frances Wright
“Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be formed, and formed by each individual in the sacred and free citadel of the mind, and there enshrined beyond the arm of law to reach, or force to shake; ay! and beyond the right of impertinent curiosity to violate, or presumptuous arrogance to threaten.”
Frances Wright

Lucian of Samosata
“SOCRATE
Come va ad Atene?

MENIPPO
Molti giovanotti dicono di far filosofia, e a giudicare dai vestiti e dal modo di camminare, si tratterebbe di sommi filosofi!

SOCRATE
Ah, ne ho visti tanti davvero! [...] E di me che pensano?

MENIPPO
In questo, Socrate, sei un uomo fortunato. Tutti credono infatti che tu sia un uomo ammirevole, e tu sappia tutto, e per giunta senza sapere nulla! Quest'ultima cosa, però, penso che sia vera.

SOCRATE
Anch'io glielo dicevo sempre, ma loro credevano che si trattasse di un'ironia!

(Dialoghi dei morti, 6, Menippo ed Eaco)”
Lucian of Samosata, Storia vera - Dialoghi dei morti

Lucian of Samosata
“The good historian, then, must be thus described: he must be fearless, uncorrupted, free, the friend of truth and of liberty; one who, to use the words of the comic poet, calls a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff, neither giving nor withholding from any, from favour or from enmity, not influenced by pity, by shame, or by remorse; a just judge, so far benevolent to all as never to give more than is due to any in his work; a stranger to all, of no country, bound only by his own laws, acknowledging no sovereign, never considering what this or that man may say of him, but relating faithfully everything as it happened.”
Lucian of Samosata, Lucian's True History

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