All perishable is but an allegory.
For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.
Time itself is an element.
I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.
Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.