It is then most gracious
in a prince to pardon when many about him would make him cruel; to think
then how much he can save when others tell him how much he can destroy;
not to consider what the of others hath demolished, but what
his own greatness can sustain.
in a prince to pardon when many about him would make him cruel; to think
then how much he can save when others tell him how much he can destroy;
not to consider what the of others hath demolished, but what
his own greatness can sustain.
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems
