“For one to be free there must be at least two.”
Source: Freedom
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“For one to be free there must be at least two.”
Source: Freedom
“Those who in quarrels intepose
Must often wipe a bloody nose.”
Fable XXXIV, "The Mastiffs"
Fables (1727)
Religion.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918): Anima Hominis, part v
Source: Classification and indexing in science (1958), Chapter 1: The need for classification, p. 2.
“The Taste of the Age”, p. 40
A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables (1962)
“If any one is angry with you, meet his anger by returning benefits for it: a quarrel which is only taken up on one side falls to the ground: it takes two men to fight.”
Irascetur aliquis: tu contra beneficiis prouoca; cadit statim simultas ab altera parte deserta; nisi paria non pugnant.
De Ira (On Anger): Book 2, cap. 34, line 5.
Moral Essays