“Bismarck is the king's last mistress because only such a creature could have such power over an old man.”
Waldersee c. 1887 http://www.tracesofevil.com/1999/10/revision-notes-about-bismarck.html
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Source: The Outsider (1956), Chapter one, The Country of the Blind, referencing a quote by Desiderius Erasmus.
Context: He alone is aware of the truth, and if all men were aware of it, there would be an end of life. In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. But his kingship is kingship over nothing. It brings no powers and privileges, only loss of faith and exhaustion of the power to act. Its world is a world without values.
“The man is always the last to know when
Cupid has struck him
-Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress”
Source: One Night with a Prince
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Book VI, Chapter 7.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
La puissance qui s'acquiert par la violence n'est qu'une usurpation, et ne dure qu'autant que la force de celui qui commande l'emporte sur celle de ceux qui obéissent.
Article on Political Authority, Vol. 1 (1751)
L'Encyclopédie (1751-1766)
No. 73
The Federalist Papers (1787–1788)
Context: There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the growth of few soils; and in the main it will be found that a power over a man's support is a power over his will. If it were necessary to confirm so plain a truth by facts, examples would not be wanting, even in this country, of the intimidation or seduction of the Executive by the terrors or allurements of the pecuniary arrangements of the legislative body.
