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De cómo un rey perdió Francia (Los Reyes Malditos, #7) QUOTES

De cómo un rey perdió Francia (Los Reyes Malditos, #7) QUOTES

1 " History's tragedies reveal great men: but those tragedies are provoked by the mediocre. "

― Maurice Druon , De cómo un rey perdió Francia (Los Reyes Malditos, #7)

2 " How is it possible? Already another year gone by? How could it go so quickly!' Perhaps it is because one takes up too many moments remembering, reliving times past. "

― Maurice Druon , De cómo un rey perdió Francia (Los Reyes Malditos, #7)

3 " Youth fills the time to come with imagination; old age relives the past through memory. The two things are equivalent. "

― Maurice Druon , De cómo un rey perdió Francia (Los Reyes Malditos, #7)

4 " Man is like a blind person who denies the existence of light because he doesn't see it. Light is a great mystery, for the blind! "

― Maurice Druon , De cómo un rey perdió Francia (Los Reyes Malditos, #7)

5 " How, then, did it happen that this same France forty years later came to be crushed on the battlefield by a nation it outnumbered fivefold? Why should its noblemen be split up into factions, its bourgeoisie in revolt, its people overwhelmed by excessive taxation, its provinces lawless and plagued by roving gangs engaged in pillaging and crime, all authority flouted, the currency weakened, trade at a standstill, and poverty and violence rife everywhere? Why this collapse? What caused this reversal of fortune? It was mediocrity. The mediocrity of just a few kings, their vanity and self-importance, their frivolousness in the conduct of their affairs, their inability to attract talented advisors, their nonchalance, their presumptuousness, their failure to draw up grand designs or even to follow those already conceived. "

― Maurice Druon , De cómo un rey perdió Francia (Los Reyes Malditos, #7)