Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard