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For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

Vittorio Alfieri
Kings, Reign, Presumption
Vittorio Alfieri (1876). “The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works”
For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.