It was said that when Austria, Russia, and Prussia divided Poland among themselves, Queen Maria Theresa wept.
There was a story, perhaps true, perhaps fabricated, in which she said she did not know why, if two parties exercised hegemony and oppressed the weak, a third party had to follow suit and commit the same injustice, merely out of prudence for the future and present convenience.
If a woman's tears only worked on those who cared for her, then Frederick the Great cared for no woman at all. So he said, "She wept, but she accepted it."
The fervor of those philanthropists reminded Georgiana of agricultural loans. The bankers had swarmed in just as eagerly back then.
She felt she might have been wrong again, yet it seemed she was no longer allowed to change her mind. A "new problem" had arrived.
Before Georgiana left, she had said she wanted to decorate Vulcan with armor, so Bonaparte found some, including Savoy armor. The nobles sneered at Savoy armor, because compared with the exquisite Milan armor, it was truly strange and ugly. Yet in the seventeenth century, the Knights of Malta had equipped themselves with it in large numbers.
Then he remembered that Piedmont had not only silk goods, but also paper mills and ironworks, so he wrote to ask her to "restore" Turin's steel industry.
Iron did not dissolve in mercury, though mercury, the embodiment of Mercury, could form alloys with other metals.
In Plato's translation of the Hermetic Corpus, Hermes once told Tat: knowledge was not the beginning of good, but it gave us the beginning of the good that would be known.
It was impossible to devote oneself to both the mortal and the divine realms.
Those who partook of God's gifts were immortal, not mortal.
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