Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ Old Age Overtakes them, and they are e’en Glad to take up in a Mill at last with Grains and Thistles, and there spend the Remainder of a Wretched Life in a Circulation of Misery and Labour. If any Man of War, or State shall find This Case to be his Own, and Himself Touch’d in the Moral of This Fable, let him keep his Own Councel, and learn to be Wiser here-after. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ We should likewise Consider, that there’s More Hazzard in the succour of a New Powerful Friend, then in the Hostility of an Old Dangerous Enemy; and that the Greatest Empires upon the face of the Earth have had their Rise from the Pretence of Taking up Quarrels, or Keeping the Peace. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ It were Well, if Possible, to keep All Potent Enemies to the Behaviour in such a Case as This, Especially if they Appear under the Shape of Friends: But if People will Venture Life, Liberty and All, for the Clawing of an Itch, and lay Violent Hands upon Themselves, there's no Fence for't. ”
