Servility always curdles into rage in the end.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.