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Updated: May 23, 2025
Non cauponantes bellum sed belligerantes, or Quem nemo ferro potuit superare me auro, or Ille vir haud magna cum re sed plenu' fidei, or the great Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque
Concerning Epicurus, I have read Bayle's magnificent article in his Historical and Critical Dictionary, and Gassendi's work, De Vita et Moribus Epicuri. With this equipment, I have become one of the disciples of the master.
"'Quid leges sine moribus. The whole moral principle of a nation is contaminated by the legislative authorization and judicial sanction of a practice dishonest in itself, which necessarily includes not merely a permission, but a stimulant, to perjury.
The essay De Origine Situ Moribus ac Populis Germaniae was published about the same time or a little later, and no doubt represents part of the material which he had collected for the chapters of his history dealing with the German wars, and which, as much of it fell outside the scope of a general history of Rome, he found it worth his while to publish as a separate treatise.
In the words of Ovid we say: "Prisca juvent alios: ego me nunc denique natum Gratulor. Hæc ætas moribus apta meis." Our friend, the Roman cit, has therefore thus far, in his progress through life, obtained no breakfast, if he ever contemplated an idea so frantic. But it occurs to you, our faithful reader, that perhaps he will not always be thus unhappy.
The child of his time, he threw all his brilliant gifts unhesitatingly into the scale of new ideas and new fashions; his "modernity," to use a current term of the present day, is greater than that of any other ancient author of anything like his eminence. Prisca iuvent alios, ego me nunc denique natum Gratulor: haec aetas moribus apta meis this is his deliberate attitude throughout his life.
For all history teaches us public and private history conquerors statesmen sharp hypocrites and brave designers yes, they all teach us how mighty one man of great intellect and no scruple is against the justice of millions! The One Man moves the Mass is inert. Justice sits on a throne. Roguery never rests, Activity is the lever of Archimedes. "Quam inulta injusta ac prava fiunt moribus."
Regi tamen et regno fidelis et obediens, nec non faciliter legibus subdita, si regatur.... Scotica gens ea ab initio est quae quondam in Hibernia fuit, et ei similis per omnia, lingua, moribus, et natura." Scoti-chronicon, Bk. ii, ch. ix.
Everything ponderous, viscous, and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying species of style, are developed in profuse variety among Germans pardon me for stating the fact that even Goethe's prose, in its mixture of stiffness and elegance, is no exception, as a reflection of the "good old time" to which it belongs, and as an expression of German taste at a time when there was still a "German taste," which was a rococo-taste in moribus et artibus.
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