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Seneca says somewhere, that God commanded only once, but that he obeys always, because he obeys the laws that he willed to ordain for himself: semel jussit, semper paret. But he had better have said, that God always commands and that he is always obeyed: for in willing he always follows the tendency of his own nature, and all other things always follow his will.
These last words the old gentleman had pronounced with fire, emotion, and extraordinary dignity; and the silence and respect with which he had been listened to were prolonged after he had ceased to speak. This appeared to embarrass him, but taking the arm of Camors he said, with a smile, "'Semel insanivimus omnes. My dear sir, every one has his madness. I trust that mine has not offended you.
'Semel in saninivimus omnes! said Merton. 'Nec lusisse pudet! said Blake, 'and the rest of it. I know there's a parallel in the Greek Anthology, somewhere. I'll go and get my copy. Not many of your young poets know anything but French. Blake seemed to have some difficulty in finding his Anthology. At last he came out with rather a 'carried' look, as the Scots say, rather excited.
But if a man have the fortitude, and resolution, to enfranchise himself at once, that is the best: Optimus ille animi vindex laedentia pectus Vincula qui rupit, dedoluitque semel. Neither is the ancient rule amiss, to bend nature, as a wand, to a contrary extreme, whereby to set it right, understanding it, where the contrary extreme is no vice.
"Why, it rather encroaches on my respected predecessor's fame for prudence and wisdom Sed semel insanivimus omnes everybody has played the fool in their turn.
"Man and wife hardly united; scarce ever without children. Computation, if two to one against two, how many against five? If confederacies were easy useless; many oppresses many. If possible only to some, dangerous. Principum amicitias." No. 50. Quincunque turpi fraude semel innotuit, Etiamsi verum dicit, amittit fidem. PHAED. Lib. i. Fab. x. 1.
The maxim of Horace: "Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem Testa diu," is of universal application, nor has it ever greater force than when reference is had to ideas, connected with the terrors of an unseen world, and where the mind that entertains them is destitute of the advantages of education.
Study the Master yourself: and let me by all means advise your wisdom to detect a mystery in 'Hamlet, and to essay the solution of the same. Nobody else has done so, of course, and it will become your long head. 'Semel insanivimus omnes, I suppose, and Hamlet and the Apocalypse offer rare opportunities."
"Sentinam urbis," a worse word than he had blamed in Rullus three years before. To Atticus, i. 19. "Pompeium adduxi in eam voluntatem, ut in Senatu non semel, sed saepe, multisque verbis, hujus mihi salutem imperii atque orbis terrarum adjudicarit." ib. To Atticus, ii. 1, abridged. Silvae Callesque to which "woods and forests" is a near equivalent.
Why then mingle ye him? Why do ye divide him? Why make you of him more sacrifices than one? Paul saith, Pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus: "Christ our passover is offered;" so that the thing is done, and Christ hath done it semel, once for all; and it was a bloody sacrifice, not a dry sacrifice. Why then, it is not the mass that availeth or profiteth for the quick and the dead.
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