What makes a aristocracy possible? They are: piety, wonder and distance: cor unum et viam unam
Friday, October 12, 2012
A Classic,from"The Third Man"
In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
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