A Quote by Juvenal

The venal herd.
[Lat., Venale pecus.] — © Juvenal
The venal herd. [Lat., Venale pecus.]

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A good shepherd shears his flock, not flays them. [Lat., Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere.]
The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.
You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd. [Lat., Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises, . . . Epicuri de grege porcum.]
We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the stream of consciousness that we call 'I' is made of shifting elements that flow from our group and back to our group again. Always we seek to be ourselves and the herd together, not One against the herd.
All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.
Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.
Be the exceptional being who separates themselves from the herd and the fate of the herd.
I wouldn't be able to do anything with my vampire horde except make it run around in a herd, but it would be a very impressive herd.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Married, you're basically part of the herd, and that makes life easier in a lot of ways in terms of social support. But if you're not by nature a herd animal, you start to feel like you're passing.
It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys." And humans have herd mentality.
The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.
True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.
To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity, a part of no whole; a freak without a place. If he cannot hold on to his reason, then he is lost indeed; most utterly, most fearfully lost, so that he becomes no more than the twitch in the limb of a corpse.
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