“There is in the garden a plant which one ought to leave dry, although most people water it. It is the weed called Envy.”

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper o f a new rule.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

-Cosimo de Medici

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