Qui cherche dans la liberte autre chose qu'elle-meme est fait pour servir. (He who desires from liberty anything other than itself is born to be a slave.)
--Tocqueville
Victrix causa deis placuit, sed victa Catoni. (The victorious cause pleased the gods, but the defeated one pleases Cato.)
--Lucan
IN PLACING THE PHRASE BY LUCAN (PHARSALIA, I, 128) AS AN EPIGRAPH to her future reflections on judgment, Hannah Arendt insinuates that judgment must honor the defeated, ...