“The human tongue is a beast that few can master.”
Source: The 48 Laws of Power
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Fausto Cercignani (1941) Italian scholar, essayist and poet
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“Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.”
Johann Georg Hamann (1730–1788) German philosopher
Sämtliche Werken, ed. Josef Nadler (Vienna: Verlag Herder, 1949-1957), vol. II, p. 197.
Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957) Austrian-American psychoanalyst
Source: The Function of the Orgasm (1927), Ch. V : The Development of the Character-Analytic Technique
“The Pythagoreans made kindness to beasts a training in humanity and pity.”
Porphyry (philosopher) (233–301) Neoplatonist philosopher
3, 20, 7
On Abstinence from Killing Animals
“Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.”
John Selden (1584–1654) English jurist and scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution, and of Jewish law
Learning.
Table Talk (1689)
John Gray book Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
The Human: Science versus Humanism (p. 3)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)
“Few men desire freedom, the greater part desire just masters.”
Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt.
Sallust (-86–-34 BC) Roman historian, politician
IV.69.18
Variant translation: Only a few prefer liberty, the majority seek nothing more than fair masters.
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