All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body.
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to their nature and quality.
Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded.
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.