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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting
“Ultimately, Chaos brings a more profound stagnation than anything it despises in law. It must forever seek more and more sensation, more and more empty marvels, until there is nothing left and it has forgotten what true invention is.”
Source: Book 2, Chapter 1 “The Lake of Voices” (p. 197), Corum, The Queen of the Swords (1971)
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“Nothing in the world was more terrible than an empty bottle! Unless it was an empty glass.”
Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. III (p. 86)
“That's the ultimate pornography… There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.”
1990s, CNN interview (1999)
Variant: There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.
Act II
A Man for All Seasons (1960)
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Two: The Palace of the Summerland
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Nothing brings people together more than mutual hatred.”