Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.
Joseph Addison
Wisdom
Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.
Joseph Addison
Cato. Act i. Sc. 1.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.