“These are the men whom even they fear who are themselves feared.”
Hi sunt, quos timent etiam qui timentur.
Sidonius Apollinaris (430–489) Gaulish poet, aristocrat and bishop
Lib. 5, Ep. 7, sect. 1; vol. 2, p. 187.
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“Parties weaken themselves by their fear of capable men.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
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Context: Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depositary of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves. Call them, therefore, liberals and serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, whigs and tories, republicans and federalists, aristocrats and democrats, or by whatever name you please, they are the same parties still and pursue the same object. The last appellation of aristocrats and democrats is the true one expressing the essence of all.
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