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No Beast Is More Savage Than Man When Possessed With Power Answerable To His Rage.

Rather I Fear On The Contrary That While We Banish Painful Thoughts We May Banish Memory As Well.

Rome Was In The Most Dangerous Inclination To Change On Account Of The Unequal Distribution Of Wealth And Property, Those Of Highest Rank And Greatest Spirit Having Impoverished Themselves By Shows, Entertainments, Ambition Of Offices, And Sumptuous Buildings, And The Riches Of The City Having Thus Fallen Into The Hands Of Mean And Low-born Persons. So That There Wanted But A Slight Impetus To Set All In Motion, It Being In The Power Of Every Daring Man To Overturn A Sickly Commonwealth.

Even A Nod From A Person Who Is Esteemed Is Of More Force Than A Thousand Arguments Or Studied Sentences From Others.

Pythias Once, Scoffing At Demosthenes, Said That His Arguments Smelt Of The Lamp.