“When the cardinal came to a closed door he would flatter it--oh beautiful yielding door! Then he would try tricking it open. And you are just the same, just the same." He pours himself some of the duke's present. "But in the last resort, you just kick it in.”
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“His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed.”
“No son wishes to see his son less powerful than himself.”
“You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead.”
“Fantasy is unconstrained by truth.”
“Those who fail the king do not die in their beds.”