236 EQUALITY ERROR
Par in parem imperium non habet.
An equal has no power over an equal.
Law Maxim.
Quod ad jus naturale attinet, omnes homines
sequales sunt. .
AH men are equal before the natural law.
Law Maxim.
Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers
brought forth on this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Lincoln—Gettysburg Address. Nov. 19, 1863.
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Among unequals what society
Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
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Et sceleratis sol oritur.
The sun shines even on the wicked
Seneca—De Beneficiis. III. 25.
Equality of two domestic powers
Breeds scrupulous faction.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 47.
Mean and mighty, rotting
Together, have one dust.
Cymbeline. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 246.
Heralds, from off our towers we might behold,
From first to last, the onset and retire
Of both your armies; whose equality
By our best eyes cannot be censured:
Blood hath bought blood and blows have
answer'd blows;
Strength match'd with strength, and power
confronted power:
Both are alike; and both alike we like.
King John. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 325.
She in beauty, education, blood,
Holds hand with any princess of the world.
King John. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 493.
The trickling rain doth fall
Upon us one and all;
The south-wind kisses
The saucy milkmaid's cheek,
The nun's, demure and meek,
Nor any misses.
E. C. Stedman—A Madrigal. St. 3.
Equality is the life of conversation; and he
is as much out who assumes to himself any
part above another, as he who considers himself
below the rest of the society.
Steele—Tatler. No. 225.
The tall, the wise, the reverend head,
Must be as low as ours.
Watts—Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Bk. II.
Hymn 63.
ERROR
The truth is perilous never to the true,
Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool,
And to the false, error and truth alike,
Error is worse than ignorance.
Bailey—Festus. Sc. A Mountain Sunrise.
Have too rashly charged the troops of error
and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.
Sir Thomas Browne—Religio Medici. Pt. I.
Sec. VI.
Mistake, error, is the discipline through which
we advance.
Channing—Address on The Present Age.
Errare mehercule malo cum Platone, quern tu
quanti facias, scio quam cum istis vera sentire.
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato,
whom I know how much you value, than to
be right in the company of such men.
Cicero—Tuscidanarum Disputationum. I. 17.
The cautious seldom err.
Confucius—Analects. Bk. IV. Ch. XXIII.
Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.
Cowraat—Poem on Truth. L. 1.
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow:
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
Dryden—All for Love. Prologue.
Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.
Gay—Beggar's Opera. Act II. Sc. 2.
Est giebt Menschen die gar nicht irren, weil
sie sich nichts Vernunftiges vorsetzen.
There are men who never err, because they
never propose anything rational.
Goethe—Spr&che in Prosa. III.
Es irrt der Mensch so lang er strebt.
While man's desires and aspirations stir,
He can not choose but err.
Goethe—Faust. Prolog imHimmel. Her Hen.
L. 77.
Ille sinistrorsum hie dexrorsum abit, unus utrique
Error, sed variis illudit partibus.
One goes to the right, the other to the left;
both are wrong, but in different directions.
Horace—Satires. II. 3. 50.
Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
Victor Hugo—La Legende des Siecles.
Quand tout le monde a tort, tout le monde a
raison.
When every one is in the wrong, every one
is in the right.
La Chaussee—La Gouvernante. I. 3.
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and
certain truth, error isnot a faultof our knowledge,
but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to
that which is not true.
Locke—Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Bk. IV. Of Wrong Assent or Error.
Ch. XX.
