This was his last wound: afflicted by his children in their deaths and harassed in their lives, mortified as a father and a king, worn down with cares and sorrows more than with years, he died, cursing his fortune, his children, and the hour of his birth.
This quote reflects the deep sorrow and regret of a father who faced betrayal and loss from his children.
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The prattling about the rights of men will not be accepted in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gunpowder.
They rob only to enable them to cheat; but in a very short time they defeat the ends both of the robbery and the fraud, by making out accounts for other purposes, which blow up their whole apparatus of force and of deception.
They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.
It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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