Essay (12 August 1795)
Aaron Hill (writer) (1685–1750) British writer
Don Alvarez in Act IV, Scene 1.
Alzira: A Tragedy (1736)
Context: Youth is ever apt to judge in haste,
And lose the medium in the wild extreme,
Do not repent, but regulate your passion:
Though love is reason, its excess is rage.
Give me, at least, your promise to reflect,
In cool, impartial solitude, and still.
No last decision till we meet again.
“Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.”
William Congreve The Old Bachelor
Act IV, scene xi
The Old Bachelor (1693)
“3387. Men apt to promise, are apt to forget.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Such excess of passion
is quite out of fashion”
Edward Gorey (1925–2000) American writer, artist, and illustrator
Source: Amphigorey
“Weak men are apt to be cruel.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician
http://books.google.com/books?id=K6lsEtMo1KMC&q=%22Weak+men+are+apt+to+be+cruel%22&pg=PA128#v=onepage
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
“Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.”
Bion of Borysthenes (-325–-246 BC) ancient greek philosopher
As quoted by Stobaeus, iii.1.18
“Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“There is moderation even in excess.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Book VI, Chapter 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
“Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book III, Ch. 11. Of Cripples
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
