Indeed a foreign war is much milder evil than a civil war.
If I have a mind to laugh at a fool, I do not have to look far for one, I laugh at myself.
🗃️ Natures that are bloodthirsty toward animals give proof of a natural propensity toward cruelty.
🗃️ the easy, gentle, and sloping path that guides the footsteps of good natural disposition is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
But I do not believe that God would favor so unjust an enterprise as to injure and pick a quarrel with others for our own convienence
great day at the tower
🗃️I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and by judgement, as the extreme of all vices.
There are many in our times who …wishing that this heated passion that is among us might be deflected into some war with our neighbors, for fear that these peccant humors which dominate our body at the moment, if they are not drained off elsewhere may…bring on our total ruin.
🗃️ 2/2 To those who, in this extremity, were escorting him to the public square he spoke: That it was too easy and cowardly a thing to do evil, and that to do good when there was no danger was common; but to do good where there was danger was the proper duty of a virtuous man.
🗃️ 1/2 Metellus alone, of all the Roman senators, undertook by the power of his virtues to withstand the power of Saturninus, tribune of the people at Rome, who wanted at all costs to get an unjust law passed in favor of the common people and thereby incurred the capital penalties
