Indeed, it is no accident that Henry Kissinger’s masterpiece, A World Restored, was devoted to the study of the recreation of the world order by the Vienna Congress after the rupture of the French Revolution, followed by the Napoleonic adventures. Is it more difficult to predict, and adjust to, the coming of a fundamental change, than to defend the present order, under the motto of “the devil you know is always preferable to the devil you don’t know!”
事实上，亨利·基辛格的力作《恢复的世界》致力于研究法国大革命破裂和随之而来的拿破仑冒险，他认为其后的维也纳会议试图重建世界秩序绝非是一时的心血来潮。 预测并适应即将到来的根本性变化是否比捍卫现有秩序难度更大，人们奉若神明的一句格言是“熟悉的魔鬼总比不熟悉的魔鬼要强！”