"How many gifts of heaven should we not really rule! A noble birth, an air of authority and empire, a face that fills the curiosity of people eager to see Prince, who retains the respect in the courtier. Perfect equanimity, a great aversion to pungent raillery, or enough reason not to allow the point, do not make threats or accusations, not to yield to anger, and always be obeyed. The mind easy, ingratiating, open heart, sincere, and is believed to see the bottom, and thus very suitable for making friends, creatures and allies, be secret, however, deep and impenetrable in its grounds and its projects. The seriousness and gravity in the audience: the short, coupled with great accuracy and dignity, either in response the ambassadors of princes, or in the councils. One way to make Thanksgiving which is like a second benefit, the choice of people you gratifies; discernment of spirits, talents and complexes for the distribution of positions and jobs, the choice of generals and ministers. A trial firm, solid, decisive in business, which we know the best and fairest and a spirit of honesty and fairness that made the following comment till sometimes against himself for the people, allies, enemies and a good memory and very reminiscent of the present needs of individuals, their faces, their names, queries. A large capacity that extends not only to foreign affairs, trade, maxims state the views of political setbacks at the borders by conquering new provinces, and their security by a large number of fortresses inaccessible, but who knows also contain within, and as in the details of a kingdom that banish worship false, suspicious and hostile to the sovereignty, if it meets; that abolishes uses cruel and wicked if they prevail, that will reform the laws and customs, if they were filled with abuse, which gives cities greater safety and greater convenience for the renewal of a exact font, more brightness and majesty by magnificent buildings. Severely punish scandalous vices; give its authority and example of credit piety and virtue: to protect the Church, its ministers, rights, freedoms: spare his people as his children to be always occupied the thought to relieve mild to make grants, and as they rise to the provinces without depleting them. Great talents for war, be careful, diligent, industrious: to have large armies, place orders in person cold be in jeopardy, not to spare his life for the good of his state, like the good of his state and his glory more than life. A very absolute power, which leaves no opportunity to intrigue, intrigue and cabal, which removes the infinite distance that is sometimes between large and small, brings them together, and under which all fold as well. An expanse of knowledge that makes the Prince sees everything through his eyes, he acts immediately and by itself, that his generals are removed from him that though his lieutenants, and its ministers as ministers. Deep wisdom that knows declare war, who knows defeat and use the victory, who can make peace, who knows the break, who knows sometimes and according to various interests compel the enemy to receive it; giving rules to a vast ambition, and knows of how far one must conquer. In the midst of enemies get covered or reported leisure games, festivals, performances, cultivating the arts and sciences, train and implement projects of buildings surprising. Finally a genius superior and powerful is love and reverence of his people, fear of foreigners, who makes a Court, and even an entire kingdom as one family, united under one head perfectly, and whose union Good intelligence is formidable in the world. These admirable virtues seem enclosed the idea of the sovereign it is true that it is rare to see them together in a same subject must contribute too many things at once, mind, heart, outside, temperament, and he I think that a monarch who collects them all in his person is worthy of the name of Great. "Jean de La Bruyère, Characters