Pope Innocent III

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    Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night;
    God said Let Newton be! and all was light.
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    See, I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 10:16.

    Jesus to his disciples.

    The Empress is Legitimist, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.
    —Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)