Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.

... but food eaten quickly isn't food.

We will die, but art will remain.

You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.