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Troy ...  Rome ... London ...

It is the stillest words that bring on the storm. Thoughts that come on doves' feet guide the world.

    Friedrich Nietzsche
    Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    Part II; The Stillest Hour
  

You are well ventured to the front gate into many-layered Troynovant, the city of nobly recurring knowledge.

You promised once, a progeny divine
Of Romans, rising from the Trojan line,
In after times should hold the world in awe,
And to the land and ocean give the law.
  
  Virgil
  The Aeneid

What is Truth? said jesting Pilate;
and would not stay for an answer.

  Francis Bacon
  The Essays: Of Truth

For noble Britons sprang from Trojans bold,
And Troynovant was built of Troyes' ashes cold.

  Edmund Spenser
  The Faerie Queene
  

In these great times
which I knew when they were this small ...
  
Karl Kraus
In These Great Times
Vienna, November 1914
  
  
Corruption swims within Cynicism,
as fattening fish within their nurturing sea.
  
Maxims for Despots
The Sly Tyrant's Handbook