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Force: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Quod ab initio non valet, tractu temporis convalescere non potest. That which had no force in the beginning can gain no strength from the lapse of time. Law Maxim. Quod alias bonum et justum est, si per vim aut fraudem petatur, malum et injustum est. What otherwise is good and just, if it be aimed at by fraud or violence, becomes evil and unjust. Law Maxim. Cogi qui potest, nescit mori. He who can be forced (to act against his will), does not know how to die.— SENECA — Hercules Furens. CCCCXXVI.

La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force. Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.— PASCAL — Pensées. Art. XXIV. 92.

L'aimable siècle où l'homme dit à l'homme, Soyons frères, ou je t'assomme. Those glorious days, when man said to man, Let us be brothers, or I will knock you down.