Proverbial Wisdom
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
157. Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Speech on the Indian Bill. Nov. 1783
158.
The brave man is not he who feels no fear,
For that were stupid and irrational;
But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues,
And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
Basil, Act III, Scene I
159.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Julius Caesar (Brutus), Act IV, Scene III
160.
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
He acts the third crime that defends the first.
Catiline (Cicero), Act III, Scene II
161. Knowledge is power.
Meditationes Sacra, De Haeresibus
162.
Repentance for past crimes is just and easy;
But sin no more’s a task too hard for mortals.
The Relapse (Worthy), Act V, Scene IV