Plus fait douceur que violence.
Book VI (1678-1679), fable 3.
Fables (1668–1679)
Plus fait douceur que violence.
Fables (1668–1679)
Source: The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto (1981), p. 208
As quoted in Presidential Government in the United States: The Unwritten Constitution (1947) by Caleb Perry Patterson. <!-- p. 122 -->
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Context: Your President is now the Tribune of the people, and, thank God, I am, and intend to assert the power which the people have placed in me... Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.
“The certainty of punishment, even more than its severity, is the preventive of crime.”
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 456.
“The most severe, audacious and effective revenge is eternal indifference.”
Original: La vendetta più severa, audace ed efficace è l’eterna indifferenza.
Source: prevale.net
“Consciousness, to be sure, is more effective than packets of medicine.”
Her final comment on her experience of getting out of the epidemic, quoted in "Japan" (1916-20)
“Every cause produces more than one effect.”
On Progress: Its Law and Cause
Essays on Education (1861)
Memo to The New Yorker (1959); reprinted in New York Times Book Review (4 December 1988)
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