"That reigning is a task," wrote Quevedo, "that scepters ask for more sweat than plowshares, and sweat tinged with veins; that the Crown is the annoying weight that tires the shoulders of the soul before the forces of the body; that the palaces For the idle prince they are tombs of a dead life, and for the one who attends gallows of a living death; this is affirmed by the glorious memories of those enlightened princes who did not stain their memories by counting among their crowned age some hour s

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