Quare Opium facit dormire: ... Quia est in eo Virtus dormitiva.
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Why Opium produces sleep: ... Because there is in it a dormitive power.
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Le Malade Imaginere (1673), Act III, sc. iii.Moliere
The planets revolved in circles because it was in their nature to do so, just as laudanum sends to sleep because it possesses a virtus dormitiva.
Agnes Mary Clerke
One of those leaders of what they call the social revolution has said that religion is the opiate of the people. Opium...opium...opium, yes. Let us give them opium so that they can sleep and dream.
Miguel de Unamuno
Humilitas homines sanctis angelis similes facit, et superbia ex angelis demones facit.
Augustine of Hippo
Suave magni maro turbantibus aequora ventis
e terra magnum alterius spectare laborem;
non quia vexari quemquamst jucunda voluptas,
sed quibus ipse malis careas quia cernere suave est.Lucretius
Plus tamen tibi et viva vox et convictus quam oratio proderit; in rem praesentem venias oportet, primum quia homines amplius oculis quam auribus credunt, deinde quia longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla.
Seneca the Younger
Moliere
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