Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-04), The Guardian, No. 99
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When a nation once loses its regard to justice; when they do not look up it as something venerable, holy and inviolable; when any of them dare presume to lessen, affront or terrify those who have the distribution of it in their hands; when a judge is capable of being…
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CATO: Forbear, Sempronius! — see they suffer death,Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 3, sc. 5, l. 60ff (1713)
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CATO: Forbear, Sempronius! -- see they suffer death, But in their deaths remember they are men. Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous. In response to Sempronius' plans to torture the captured rebel soldiers before their execution, as an example to others.
A quotation from Joseph Addison
MARCUS: Oh Portius, is there not some chosen curse,Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 20ff (1713)
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MARCUS: Oh Portius, is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heav'n Red with uncommon wrath to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin? Of Julius Caesar and his overthrow of the Roman Republic.
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A quotation from Joseph Addison
Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225
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