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It may bee demanded from whence discords and factions haue their beginnings?
DOE they arise of such a 1.1 mo∣tions as are sodainely sug∣gested to the people, so that there cannot bee time giuen them to thinke or consider what matter they go about? Or do they take their begin∣nings rather of b 1.2 the priuate or open hatred of Familiers? Or may they pro∣ceed rather from the roote of c 1.3 pride and ambiti∣on, whilst euery man striueth to proceed, and go
before another, and is alwaies detracting from him hee liketh not? Or may they haue their be∣ginnings from idlenesse and loosenesse of liuing, which oftentimes are wont to minister occasions of ciuill (or rather vnciuill) brawles and con∣tentions? Or may they arise of the d 1.4 different mindes and dispositions of the people, from the designes and intentions of the Nobility? Or not so much from thence neither, but of the waue∣ring mutability of the vnconstant multitude also? their years being so diuers, and their manners so vnlike: For it is impossible, that where there is such and so great diuersity of yeares, and dis∣parity of manners, that the multitude or Com∣mons altogether, should equally well like of, affect, and comport the present State, but con∣trarywise disagree, grow factious, and con∣tentious.
Tholoz. de Re∣pub. lib. 22.
Idem Ibidem.
Senec. Epist. 74
Tholoz. de Re pub. lib. 22.