Scientia potentia est phrase ""sapientia est potentia"" is often translated as "wisdom is power". The earliest documented occurrence of the phrase "Knowledge is power" is from Imam Ali (599-661 CE), as recorded in the tenth-century book Nahj Al-Balagha (originally in Arabic). He said: Another account of this concept is found in the Shahnameh by the Persian poet Ferdowsi (940–1020 CE) who wrote: "Capable is he who is wise" (in Persian: توانا بود هر که دانا بود). This hemistich is translated to English as "knowledge is power" or "One who has wisdom is powerful". A proverb in practically the same wording is found in
Et facere et pati fortia Romanum est had ordered to torture him. Porsena was so impressed by this, that he gave up the besiegement of Rome. In this way Mucius Cordus became an example for a brave and audacious Roman burgess. He is assumed to have got his byname “"Scaevola"” ("The “left-hand”") because of his act. Cicero was later famously to use the phrase "Civis Romanus sum" in a different context. Et facere et pati fortia Romanum est Et facere et pati fortia Romanum est is a Latin phrase meaning "Acting and suffering bravely is the attribute of a Roman." Its comes from Livy's "Ab Urbe condita"