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“Power loves not the light of day, nor the attention of curious eyes. In darkness it thrives most...A lord may send his army hither and thither, but the true testing of his power is in those places ...”
“the greatest trick of kings is to fool the poor into thinking we have common cause with the rich simply because we live on the same bog. Then the poor get their heads split open in the battles they...”
“And so seplchred in such pomp dost lie,That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.”
“I should have been the King of Earth, or at least that's what my memory tells me...”
“For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.”
“There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me. All these kings would do a deal better if they put down their swords and listened to their mothers.”
“A man with a good story is practically a king.”
“Who shall resist Anti-Christ when he comes if we show such patience towards the vices and crimes of his precursors? By such leniency, we encourage kings to become tyrants and tempt them to withdraw...”
“The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.”
“Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.”
“To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.”
“Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.”
“And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.”
