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

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