The Love Of Popularity Holds You In

Never Does Nature Say One Thing And Wisdom Another. Variant: Wisdom And Nature! Are They Not The Same? Variant: Nature And Wisdon Always Speak Alike.

Already Long Ago, From When We Sold Our Vote To No Man, The People Have Abdicated Our Duties; For The People Who Once Upon A Time Handed Out Military Command, High Civil Office, Legions — Everything, Now Restrains Itself And Anxiously Hopes For Just Two Things: Bread And Circuses.

The Brief Span Of Our Poor Unhappy Life To Its Final Hour Is Hastening On; And While We Drink And Call For Gay Wreaths, Perfumes, And Young Girls, Old Age Creeps Upon Us, Unperceived.

When Did Reason Ever Direct Our Desires Or Our Fears?

Savage Bears Keep At Peace With One Another. [lat., Saevis Inter Se Convenit Ursis.]