Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.

Unavailable wars are always just.