Famous quotes containing the words commonwealth, bank and/or series:
“We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“... an adamantine island chained to the shifting bank of the Channel.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)
“History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)