Victor Amadeus I

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    ... in any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.
    Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973)

    Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.
    —E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)