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To the queen, who pressed him for his sentiments respecting the effect of monopolies a delicate question for a subject to speak his mind upon he answered, with conciliatory lightness, "Madam, will you have me speak the truth? Licentiâ omnes deteriores sumus." In court he used to say, "Let us stay a little, that we may have done the sooner."
"'Cur in vituperando sis quam in laudando proclivior. 'Hoc facile est ad explicandum, Nicolaus inquit, 'quod longa aetas et ante acta vita me docuit. Nam in laudandis hominibus saepius deceptus sum, cum hi deteriores essent quam existimarem, in vituperandis vero nunquam me fefellit opinio. IX. Bartol.
'Tis a condition apt to befall a life too much at large, unmoulded by the pressure of obligation. Nam deteriores omnes sumus licentiae, or, as a more familiar tongue might deliver it, "As you like" is a bad finger-post. Potentates make known their intentions and affect the funds at a small expense of words.
There is a liberty of corrupt nature, which is affected both by men and beasts to do what they list; and this liberty is inconsistent with authority, impatient of all restraint; by this liberty 'sumus omnes deteriores; it is the grand enemy of truth and peace, and all the ordinances of God are bent against it.
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