Famous quotes containing the words minor, characters and/or monarch:
“Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“There are as many characters in men
As there are shapes in nature.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)