“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils of the world can be cured by legislation.”

Dennis Prager. "The Doritos Ad Was Not Funny" http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2010/02/16/the_doritos_ad_was_not_funny/page/full at townhall.com, 16 February 2010.
2010s

Original: (it) La ricchezza più grande che si possa avere al mondo, è la pura semplicità.
Source: prevale.net

Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself (1994)
Context: "The voice of a crying and dark soul" is beautiful, and his act of expressing it in music cures him of his dark sorrow in an act of recovery. Furthermore, his music has been accepted as one that cures and restores his contemporary listeners as well. Herein I find the grounds for believing in the exquisite healing power of art.
This belief of mine has not been fully proved. 'Weak person' though I am, with the aid of this unverifiable belief, I would like to "suffer dully all the wrongs" accumulated throughout the twentieth century as a result of the monstrous development of technology and transport. As one with a peripheral, marginal and off-centre existence in the world I would like to seek how — with what I hope is a modest decent and humanist contribution — I can be of some use in a cure and reconciliation of mankind.

Quoted in Aaron Ben-Ze'ev (2001), The Subtlety of Emotions, p. 445 http://books.google.com/books?id=S0rkL_Unl-cC&pg=PA445

No. 35
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

Building a Better Business (2005)

Address https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1994-12-06-9412050445-story.html to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in Budapest opposing the expansion of NATO (6 December 1994)
1990s

On Milton (1825)

Pearls of Wisdom