Kaina kai palaia Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. : with their severall applications / collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present by John Spencer ...
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Kaina kai palaia Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. : with their severall applications / collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present by John Spencer ...
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1658.
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Popular Government, popular confusion. [ 201]
IT was said of old, He that is friend to all, is true friend to none; and that which hath
many heads,* 1.1 hath no head at all. Such is that many-headed Monster, (the Multi∣tude)
which hath neither head for brains, nor brains for government. And as in a
medicine, if there be not a due proportion of the simples, in the mixture, there's a
mischief for a remedy, not a remedy for a mischief. So in a popular State, where the
People are agreed,* 1.2 and where there is no equall temperature, and counterpoise of
supream power, against the strong ingredient of the Multitude, which is alwaies
hot in the highest degree, there must needs be disorder, and a way open to all con∣fusion.
Notes
* 1.1
Amicus omni∣um, amicus nul∣lorum. Tullias, de amicitia.