“Be not anxious to please the multitude”

— Quintus Sextius

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Quintus Sextius 14

Roman philosopher

Publilio Siro Latin writer

Maxim 1075
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave

“For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey,
This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned,
Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,
Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?”

Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian

St. 22
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)

“If one is anxious to write about God, one ought to be anxious to write well.”

Charles Williams (1886–1945) British poet, novelist, theologian, literary critic, and member of the Inklings

"The Productions of Time", Time and Tide, Vol. XXII, No. 4 (25 January 1941), pp. 72–73

“If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious. ”

Миньон МакЛафлин (1913–1983)

“Say to thy soul, O my soul! If thou wilt sin with the multitude, thou must be shut out of heaven with the multitude, thou must be cast down to hell with the multitude.”

Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) English Puritan

Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652

“Life for the multitude.”

Ishme-Dagan King of Isin

In a tablet (𒁾) to Nanna, Text online http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section2/tr25413.htm at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, early 2nd millennium BC.

“the question to ask, in other, is not "What is the multitude?" but rather "What can the multitude become?" … common condition, of course, does not mean sameness or unity, but it does require that no differences of nature or kind divide the multitude.”

Antonio Negri book Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

(105-106)
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

“The multitude is always in the wrong.”

Paulo Freire (1921–1997) educator and philosopher

“The multitude is always in the wrong.”

Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon (1637–1685) Irish poet

Source: Essay on Translated Verse (1684), Line 184.

“Be not anxious to please the multitude”

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