“Your Highness, do not use the word 'envy' so casually when you do not know the paths others have trod on. Few women - no, few people - have the advantages you possess. If you lament that you cannot live as you like, perhaps it is because you have not tried to live as yourself at all.”
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“If the fates were arranging things, it was better to leave it entirely to them.”
“How much harm, eddying outward in fateful circles, Clement was beginning to foresee.”
“… curiosity is another of the mistresses whose slaves decline no sacrifice.”
“If you want to save him, you can't keep him.”
“What is written comes to pass.”