Famous quotes containing the words circle, limit and/or iii:
“Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.”
—Ralph J. Cudworth (1617–1688)
“Greatness collapses of itself: such limit the gods have set to the growth of prosperous states.”
—Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)
“The army is the true nobility of our country.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)