"Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. [...] In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michel Angelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. "
The Third Man
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