That is why she has survived the cause for which she suffered.

The very highest enterprises perish in their defeat and even more surely in their victory.

The devotion, which inspired them, remains as an immortal example.

And if the illusion, under which her senses laboured, helped her to this act of self-consecration, was not that illusion the unconscious outcome of her own heart?
Her foolishness was wiser than wisdom, for it was that foolishness of martyrdom, without which men have never yet founded anything great or useful.

Cities, empires, republics rest on sacrifice.