Famous Quotes / Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce: "ILLUMINATI, n. A sect of Spanish heretics of the latter part of the sixteenth century; so called because they were light weights -- _cunctationes illuminati_."
| Because | Called | Century | Cunctationes |
| Heretics | Illuminati | Latter | Light |
| Part | Sect | Sixteenth | Spanish |
| Weights |