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  1. WIST Quotations @[email protected] ·

    A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 241 (1955)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/16794/

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  2. WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] ·

    A quotation from Cicero

    You know the insolence of Antonius; you know his friends, you know his whole household. To be slaves to lustful, wanton, debauched, profligate, drunken gamblers, is the extremity of misery combined with the extremity of infamy.
     
    [Nostis insolentiam Antoni, nostis amicos, nostis totam domum. libidinosis, petulantibus, impuris, impudicis, aleatoribus, ebriis servire, ea summa miseria est summo dedecore coniuncta.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 3, ch. 14 / sec. 35 (2.14/3.35.1) (44-12-20 BC) [tr. Yonge (1903)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

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  3. WIST Quotations moves again! @[email protected] ·

    A quotation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius:

    «
    When, O Catiline, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end of that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does now?
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu

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  4. WIST Quotations moves again! @[email protected] ·

    A quotation from Euripides

    «««««
    When a sensible man
    has a good cause to defend, to be eloquent
    is no great feat. Your tongue is so nimble
    one might think you had some sense, but your words
    contain none at all. The powerful man
    who matches insolence with glibness is worst than a fool.
    He is a public danger!
    »»»»»

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/euripides/58720/

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