North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?