Date: w. 1365, trans. 1579
"And euerie one hath continuall warre with him selfe in the most secret closet of his minde."
preview | full record— Petrarch (1304-1374); Twyne, Thomas (1543–1613)
Date: 1682
"We are carry'd Up to the Heavens, and Down again into the Deep, by Turns; so long as we are govern'd by our Affections, and not by Virtue: Passion, and Reason, are a kind of Civil War within us; and as the one, or the other has Dominion, we are either Good, or Bad."
preview | full record— L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)