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“It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“Envy has blackened every page of his history.... The future, in its justice, will number him among those men whom passions and an excess of activity have condemned to unhappiness, through the gift of genius.”
—Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)