When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.


Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt]. (ed. 1837)

William Hazlitt Quotes

When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from ...

When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from ...

When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from ...

When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from ...