"Auribus teneo lupum."
— Wolves
January 1, 1970
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Terence, Phormio, 506; compare Thomas Jefferson, on the paradox of slavery, in a letter to John Holmes (22 April 1820): "We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, self-preservation in the other."
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Terence, Phormio, 506; compare Thomas Jefferson, on the paradox of slavery, in a letter to John Holmes (22 April 1820): "We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, self-preservation in the other."