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“Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

“‘When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers’ and if Taiwan is used as a piece in a power tussle between the United States and China, the Taiwanese will inevitably end up the worst off”

“Though I did not have the words to say it then, I believe it occurred to me for the first time that even a woman might be caught up in the world of events, and be destroyed by the world.”

“we too easily assume a superiority to the "barbarians" of the West who are pleased to call themselves our masters. (I am, you see, becoming somewhat less the philosopher and somewhat more the man of the world.)… there is a kind of vitality here in Rome that a year ago I could not have been persuaded was even remotely attractive. A year ago, I had only heard of Rome; now I have seen it”

“You see, I wanted to become a Napoleon, that’s why I killed”