Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
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Zum Autor"The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines."
"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men."
"A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him."
"The tools that would teach men their own use would be beyond price."
"... When someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not having yet become accustomed to the dark or whether it has come from greater ignorance into greater light and is dazzled by the increased brillance."
"Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery."