“Blind counsels of the wicked! Crime cowardly ever!”
O caeca nocentum
consilia! o semper timidum scelus!
Source: Thebaid, Book II, Line 489
“Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.”
Source: The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories
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“When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.”
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Quoted as "a favorite maxim" of Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson in Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by His Widow, Mary Anna Jackson, Prentice Press/Courier Journal, 1895; ch. XIII p. 264 archive.org http://archive.org/stream/memoirsstonewal00jackgoog#page/n306/mode/2up%20Seite%20264%20archive.org. <br class="br">Without any reference to Jackson in: Conversations of Our Club. Brownson's Quarterly Review, October 1858. p. 459 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=wQ7ZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA459&dq=counsel <br class="br">Misattributed
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