“Those who make revolutions by halves do nothing but dig their own tombs.”
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767–1794) military and political leader
(January 1793) [Source: Oeuvres Complètes de Saint-Just, vol. 1 (2 vols., Paris, 1908), p. 414]
“To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.”
— Christoph Martin Wieland, book Oberon
Nichts halb zu thun ist edler Geister Art. <br class="br">Oberon, Song 5, st. 30 http://www.archive.org/stream/oberon02187gut/7ober10.txt; translation from A. B. Faust (ed.) Oberon (New York: F. S. Crofts, 1940) p. 326.
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