"Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like."

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The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula.

— Klemens von Metternich