Say, hast thou naught descried that met thy wishes?
Thou didst o'erlook a boundless territory,
'The kingdoms of the world and all their glory,'
But all insatiate thou art,
Lusted for naught at all thine heart?
Mephistopheles, in Faust Part II Act IV, by Goethe.
Very Machiavellian.
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