Non sempre ciò che vien dopo è progresso. - Alessandro Manzoni

It is one of the advantages of this world that people can hate and be hated without knowing each other.

But what is history, Don Ferrante would often say, without politics? A guide who walks on and on with no one following to learn the road, so that his every step is wasted; just as politics without history is like a man who walks along without a guide.

A lawyer must be told things frankly; then it's up to us to muddle them up.