Treatise · Political literature · Philosophical literatureGod is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.Niccolo MachiavelliThe Prince · 1532★ 7.9
Essay · Historical literature · Political literatureMen make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.Karl MarxThe Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte · 1852★ 6.3
Play · History (play) · Tragedy (play)Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.William ShakespeareJulius Caesar · 1599★ 5.6
PoemThe only freedom the gods grant us Is this: to submit Of our own free will to their sovereignty We should do just that, Since only in the illusion of freedom Does freedom exist.Fernando Pessoa1914★ 5.0
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