
Fable LXIII, "Plutus, Cupid, and Time"
Fables (1727)
Bk. I, ch. 6.
The History of Henry Esmond (1852)
Fable LXIII, "Plutus, Cupid, and Time"
Fables (1727)
Law.
Table Talk (1689)
“Tis a mad world (my masters) and in sadnes / I travail'd madly in these dayes of madnes.”
“Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more.”
“The greater a man is, the more can his wrath be appeased; a noble spirit is capable of kindly impulses. For the noble lion 'tis enough to have overthrown his enemy; the fight is at an end when his foe is fallen. But the wolf, the ignoble bears harry the dying and so with every beast of less nobility. At Troy what have we mightier than brave Achilles? But the tears of the aged Dardanian he could not endure.”
Quo quisque est maior, magis est placabilis irae,
et faciles motus mens generosa capit.
corpora magnanimo satis est prostrasse leoni,
pugna suum finem, cum iacet hostis, habet:
at lupus et turpes instant morientibus ursi
et quaecumque minor nobilitate fera.
maius apud Troiam forti quid habemus Achille?
Dardanii lacrimas non tulit ille senis.
III, v, 33; translation by Arthur Leslie Wheeler
"the aged Dardanian" here refers to Priam
Tristia (Sorrows)
Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter I, Before Liberalism, p. 9.