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

È uno de' vantaggi di questo mondo, quello di poter odiare ed esser odiati, senza conoscersi.

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.

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