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This many-headed monster, Multitude.
This many-headed monster, Multitude.
It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires
of the crowd and their unreasonable read more
It is a good part of sagacity to have known the foolish desires
of the crowd and their unreasonable notions.
[Lat., Bona prudentiae pars est nosse stultas vulgi cupiditates,
et absurdas opiniones.]
Hence ye profane; I hate ye all;
Both the great vulgar, and the small.
Hence ye profane; I hate ye all;
Both the great vulgar, and the small.
The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.
The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.
Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.
Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.
The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how
otherwise can so many heads agree together read more
The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how
otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?
[Lat., Vox populi habet aliquid divinum: nam quomo do aliter tot
capita in unum conspirare possint?]
The fickle populace always change with the prince.
[Lat., Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus.]
The fickle populace always change with the prince.
[Lat., Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus.]
