Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Marriage
Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)
“They’re just ordinary people,” Nancy said. “You can’t expect too much of them.”
Source: All Flesh is Grass (1965), Chapter 17 (p. 179)
A Vision of the Uncorrupted Society, p. 279 (See also: Niccolò Machiavelli..)
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)
“Those who lead the country into the abyss
Call ruling too difficult
For ordinary men.”
"From a German War Primer"
“If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.”
Source: Political Treatise (1677), Ch. 6, On Monarchy
Context: If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. No doubt there are usually more and sharper quarrels between parents and children, than between masters and slaves; yet it advances not the art of household management to change a father's right into a right of property, and count children but as slaves. Slavery, then, and not peace, is furthered by handing the whole authority to one man.
“Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.”
Nam cupide conculcatur nimis ante metutum.
Book V, line 1140 (tr. Rouse)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Rome, or Reason? A Reply to Cardinal Manning. Part I. The North American Review (1888)
As quoted in Woman Through the Ages;; (1908) by Emil Reich, p. 155
On se doit assemer en robes et en armes en tel manière que li preudome de cest siècle ne dient que on en face trop, ne les joenes gens de cest siècle ne dient que on en face peu.
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