What is the short meaning of the long speech?
But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?
The mind is the eyesight of the soul.
In love, Jealousy is the great exaggerator.
Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.