Source: The Iliad
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Source: Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato (1713), Line 21. Pope also uses the reference, "Like Cato, give his little Senate laws", in his Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (1734), Prologue to Imitations of Horace.
“Bird-signs!
Fight for your country—that is the best, the only omen!”
XII. 243 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Quotation and Originality
“A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.”
Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.
Quintus Curtius Rufus Roman historian
VI, 4, 13.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book VI
“5698. Who draws his Sword against his Prince, must throw away the Scabbard.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) American general and politician, 7th president of the United States
To troops who had abandoned their lines during the Battle of New Orleans (8 January 1815).
1810s
“Love governs his empire without a sword.”
Francesco Petrarca Il Canzoniere
Amor regge suo imperio senza spada.
Canzone 105, st. 1
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
“The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 4.
