Quote#Truth
All human archives in this truth accord
Quote byElizabeth Benger · 1775–1827
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Abolition of the Slave Trade (1810).
English (original)
All human archives in this truth accord, That feeble man is Ruin’s mighty lord; States rise and fall as ages roll away, But vice survives, the passions ne’er decay; New tyrants start, where conquest once has been, The drama constant, tho’ transposed the scene.
— Elizabeth Benger
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