Literary Examples
- Sallust considered that the civil feuds which brought down the Roman Republic 'had set in when the destruction of Rome's mighty enemy Carthage left her without an incentive to self-discipline'.
- Shakespeare had Henry IV urge his son, 'Be it thy course to busy giddy minds/With foreign quarrels'
- Swift's view of the divided Tory party at the end of Queen Anne's reign was that 'a ship's crew quarrelling in a storm, or while their enemies are within gunshot, is but a faint idea of this infatuation'.
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