REFLECTIONS

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
-- Voltaire


"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion.
Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom
they
consider god-fearing and pious.
On the other hand, they do less easily move against
him, believing that he has the gods on his side"
--Aristotle