“Of course I know they say that one must be obedient, and of course, too, the prince is one of those who say so: that one must be obedient without questions, out of pure goodness of heart, and that for my worthy conduct in this matter I shall meet with reward in another world. We humiliate Providence by attributing to it our own comprehension, our own little private way of looking at things, out of annoyance that we cannot fathom the ways of Providence itself.
