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Multitudes Quotes

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.

Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.394, Oxford University Press, USA

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

Charles Baudelaire (1951). “My heart laid bare, and other prose writings”

We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.

Adam Smith, Robert L. Heilbroner, Laurence J. Malone (1987). “The Essential Adam Smith”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

I am large, I contain multitudes

"Song of Myself " l. 1324 (written 1855)

This many-headed monster, Multitude.

Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel ...: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings ...”, p.47

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Soul of Man under Socialism”, p.4, Oscar Wilde

I will build a car for the great multitude.

"My Life and Work". Book by Henry Ford and Samuel Crowther, 1922.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

George Croly, Edmund Burke (1840). “A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With Extracts from His Writings”, p.11

To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.147, Penguin

All go free when multitudes offend.

Lucan (1722). “Lucan's Pharsalia”, p.252

Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.

Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.98