A garland of quotations CVI

Perhaps your library has my books?

Justice, like lightning, shall ever appear
To some men hope, and to other men fear!
•Tony Isabella, Black Lightning #1 (1977).

For such is the fate of great truths, that their duration is only as a flash of lightning in the long and dark night of error. The happy time is not yet arrived, when truth, as falsehood has been hitherto, shall be the portion of the greatest number.
•Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments (1764).

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