Careful Words

knowing (n.)

knowing (adj.)

What constitutes a state?

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Men who their duties know,

But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain.

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And sovereign law, that state's collected will,

O'er thrones and globes elate,

Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

Sir William Jones (1746-1794): Ode in Imitation of Alcaeus.

  Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

Terence (185-159 b c): Andria. The Prologue. 17.