“If you despise habits so much, it is because you do not realize that nobody can do without them.”
Fausto Cercignani (1941) Italian scholar, essayist and poet
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“If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.”
— Emil M. Cioran, book History and Utopia
History and Utopia (1960)
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