The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one ...is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children--for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him--and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for whi...ch it was worthy!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates h...im as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the dense light of wakened flesh animal man is a prince. As from alabaster... a lucency animates him from heel to forehead. Then his shadows are deep and not gray.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and mus...t protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prin...ce must guard against.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »