I wish my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot… - Laurence Sterne

Y, en vuestro propio caso, recordad bien y meditad sobre esta sencilla distinción (no hacerla como es debido ha sido la perdición de miles): — que vuestra conciencia no es ley. —

Drevni Goti u Germaniji [...] - imađahu jedan mudar zajednički običaj, naime, da o svakoj važnijoj stvari koja se ticala zajednice raspravljaju dvaput; i to - jednom kad su pijani, a drugi put u treznom stanju;- Pijani - da im savetovanje ne bude lišeno snage i odvažnosti;- atrezni - da ne bude lišeno razboritosti i opreznosti.

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests himself in everything.