"That power which circumstances placed in my hands, and which is an emanation of divinity, I am conscious of having used to the best of my skill. I have never wittingly wronged any one. For this campaign there were good and sufficient reasons; and if some should think that I have not fulfilled all expectations, they ought in justice to reflect that there is a mysterious power without us, which in a great measure governs the issue of human undertakings."
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The Emperor Julian, as portrayed in Emperor and Galilean (1873).
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Henrik Ibsen
1828 – 1906
norwegischer Schriftsteller
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