Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ The Best Use of This Application, is to Possess us with a True Sense of the Restlesness of these Two Passions; and Consequently to make Those Weaknesses Odious to our selves, that are so Troublesome to the World; and in truth, no Better then the Common Pest of Mankind. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ THERE are some Pestilent Humours and Froward Natures, that Heaven it self has much ado to please. Envy Places it’s Happiness in the Misery and Misfortune of Others; and Avarice is never to Pieas'd, unless it can get All to it self They may seem to be nearer a-Kin then in truth they Are, though the One is seldom or never to be found without the Other. ”
