Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
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And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
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Variant translation: We should not listen to those who like to affirm that the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the tumult of the masses is truly close to madness.
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Works, Epistle 127 (to Charlemagne, AD 800)Alcuin
Paucos enim ratio capit, raros probabilis oblectat intentio: ad illud potius turba ducitur, quod ad remissionem curarum constat inventum. nam quicquid aestimat voluptuosum, hoe et ad beatitudinem temporum iudicat applicandum. quapropter largiamur expensas, non semper ex iudicio demus. expedit interdum desipere, ut populi possimus desiderata gaudia continere.
Cassiodorus
Semper Dowland semper dolens.
John Dowland
Vox populi, vox humbug.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Meum est propositum
in taberna mori,
ut sint vina proxima
morientis ori.Archpoet
Difficile est proprie communia dicere.
Horace
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