Proverbial Wisdom

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.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708-1778)

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.

Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)

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.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

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.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Catiline (Cicero), Act III, Scene II

161. Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Meditationes Sacra, De Haeresibus

162. Repentance for past crimes is just and easy;
But sin no more’s a task too hard for mortals.

Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)

The Relapse (Worthy), Act V, Scene IV