Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ So that no Man can be either Happy or Secure that governs himself by the Humour and Opinion of the Common People. 'Tis a Thing utterly impossible to Please All, and none but a Mad Man will endeavour to Please those that are Divided among themselves, and can never Please ane another. A Wise, and an Honest Man lives by Rule, and Consults the Conscience of his Actions, without any Regard to Popular Applause. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ Did ever any Creature make a Friend or Confident of them? Why should we be sollicitous then to be thought well of by those that no Prudent Good Man ever thought well of? They are all Passion and Fancy, without either Judgment or Moderation: They neither understand what they do, nor why ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ The Good Man, in fine, was willing to Please Every body, but had the Ill Fortune to Please No body, and lost his Ass into the Bargain. The Moral. He that resolves not to go to Bed till all the World is Pleas'd, shall be troubled with the Head Ach. REFLEXION. So many Men, so many Minds; and this Diversity of Thought must necessarily be attended with Folly, Vanity, and Error: For Truth is one and the same for Ever, and the Sentence of Reason stands as Firm as the Foundations of the Earth. ”
