I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
The French complain of everything, and always.
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.
The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.
We are nothing but by the law.