Don't start celebrating yet
latest is that Johnson is considering standing again
"because he thinks it is a matter of National Interest"
Yea Gods!!
Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad
I was looking up this phrase to make sure I had it right, and by pure coincidence found someone questioning its origin. He started his question thus:
Last night I was reading Boswell’s
Life of Johnson, and came across the familiar quotation in a Latin form,
Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat – “those whom God wishes to destroy he first drives mad”. ... I think we can suppose that the English “gods” replacing “Deus”, “God”, is just a feature of quotation. ...
Was this find really just coincidence?