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Wednesday 11 Feb 2004

Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.

[And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.]

-- Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus
Read the rest in letter 164 in Works (1863) volume 1, Vox populi, vox dei: The voice of the people is the voice of God and The wisdom and stupidity of crowds

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• Alcuin
• The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Edited by Elizabeth Knowles. Oxford University Press.
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