聖人之治
John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther:
By education most have been misled;
So they believe, because they so were bred.
The Priest continues what the nurse began,
And thus the child imposes on the man.
The rest I nam’d before, nor need repeat;
But int’rest is the most prevailing cheat,
The sly seducer both of age and youth:
They study that, and think they study truth:
When int’rest fortifies an argument,
Weak reason serves to gain the wills assent:
For souls, already warp’d, receive an easie bent. (389 — 399)
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism:
Of all the Causes which conspire to blind
Man’s erring Judgment, and misguide the Mind,
What the weak Head with strongest Byass rules,
Is Pride, the never-failing Vice of Fools. (201 — 204)
Jacob Cats, Moral Emblems. p. 156 ff.:
Wat de seuge doet, moeten de biggen ontgelden.
WHAT THE SOW DOES, THE LITTLE PIGS MUST PAY FOR
WHEN the old Sow has play’d her pranks,
And upſet tubs and pails around her,
Out comes the Maſter in a rage,
With broom in hand, reſolv’d to pound her :But ſhe, well vers’d in all his oaths,
And in their meaning full confiding,
Runs off and leaves her pigs behind
To bear the blame and get the hiding.
And they, poor pigs, though innocent
Of all the harm, deſpite their ſqueaking,
Get beat all round and made to ſmart
For all the big Sow has been breaking.‘Tis thus we often ſee in life,
The great misdoers ſave their bacon,
While blame and puniſhment alike
Fall on the ſmaller folks when taken :
How Kings and Statesmen for their faults
Get ſcatheleſs off, nor fear vexation,
While all the ills which they have wrought
Are felt and paid for by the nation.——
CE que la truye forfait, les porceaux souffrent.
QUIDQUID delirant Reges, plectuntur Achivi. — Horace i. Epist. 2.
DAT veniam Corvis, vexat censura Columbas. — Juven. Sat. 2.
Πολλάκι καὶ ξύμπασα πόλις κακοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἐπαύρει.
Id est.
SÆPE universa civitas viri mali scelera luit.
IL peccato del Signore souvente fa piangere il vassallo.
Un fa il peccato, l’altro la penitenza.DER Herren sünd, der bauren büss.
WANNEER een Prinz springt uyt den bant,
Daerom lijdt dickmael al het lant.MANCHER muss entgelten des er nie genossen hat.
QUID agimus hoc casu? feramus. Nam quemadmodum sterilitatem, aut nimios imbres, aut cætera naturæ mala; ita luxum, ambitionem et avaritiam dominantium habeamus.
SICHEM rapuit, et agricola plectitur. — Arabian Adage. Vid. RICHT. Axiom. Œcon. 24, 25.
References and Links
- John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther.
- Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism.
- Jacob Cats, Moral Emblems. (Google Books)