A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.

Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.

Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.