"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil." ― Marcus Tullius Cicero Topic(s): History Tags: function, wisdom More From Marcus Tullius Cicero "There are more men ennobled by study than by nature." "It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment." "That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place." More In History "I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power."― Robert Frost "I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term."― Robert Caro "When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity."― Robert Anton Wilson