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What was easier to hijack than democracy? Like most things in the world of men, democracy was principally a question of money, and the prince had plenty.
As with every curse, the victim was also the vehicle for conquest and expansion.
“What you lose in strength, you gain in clear-sightedness. The trick is to reach the age of wisdom while you’re still strong enough to do things.”
‘God blesses the man of good deeds, and men bless the man of many sheep!’
Sins have been the same since the dawn of time, so why on earth change the punishments?
Of the bear it is said that when he goes to a beehive for honey and the bees begin to sting him, he forgets about the honey and concentrates on revenge; and, because he wishes to revenge himself on all the bees that sting him, he succeeds in revenging himself upon none of them. Whereupon his anger turns into rage and he throws himself on the ground helplessly clawing the air with his paws.
“An evil that strikes midday doesn’t need night to strike again,”
Once again, man, in search of land, gave the plague to his fellow man in the folds of his offerings.
“Read”—the first heavenly word, the first commandment, and the key to all things. What other way to solve the enigma of the hornet than to read what had been written about it?
like they were worshipping a God of hate and punishment, while hers was one of love and mercy.
“Like our bees that have to coexist with the giant hornets, we are a people who must coexist with the flaws in the earth—earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions—and with war, the flaw of human nature. We know that our archipelago is fragile, that our existence is fragile, and that the survivors must always rebuild. We are a people well versed in catastrophes, Professor. The ‘other’ is none other than ourselves, a survivor and a partner.
