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Caterina de’ Medici,
Wish her character had been more developed. She is such a giant of the 16th century. Surely she could have played a bigger role in the novel.
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
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“I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
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“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
― Antigone
― Antigone
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