Famous quotes containing the words serene and/or prince:
“Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life ... can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.”
—Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)