Sublime

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred and how he reigned, are written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel.

Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even the closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.

it is therefore very difficult to discover a medium between the sovereignty of all and the absolute power of one man:

Du Roy rageait du triomphe du Patron. Il s’était cru riche avec les cinq cent mille francs extorqués à sa femme, et maintenant il se jugeait pauvre, affreusement pauvre, en comparant sa piètre fortune à la pluie de millions tombée autour de lui, sans qu’il eût su en rien ramasser.

but an administrative council composed of men dependent on the Crown, so that the king, after having ordered one of his servants, called a Prefect, to commit an injustice, has the power of commanding another of his servants, called a Councillor of State, to prevent the former from being punished; when I demonstrated to them that the citizen who has