Provocative thoughts

[Vexari]

There is nothing more difficult to plan

more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage

than the creation of a new order of things

… Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator

they do so with the passion of partisans

while the others defend him sluggishly

so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable..


~ Niccolo Machiavelli ~