All empire is no more than power in trust.
Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!