[Hear it, friend; and understand it,--with hair lying flat!] It is true, the disaffection of the Russian Court, on such trifling grounds, was not to be expected; and great misfortune can befall us.

Well; a year or two sooner, a year or two later,--it is not worth one's while to bother about the very worst.
If things take the better turn, our condition will be surer and firmer than it was before.

If we have nothing to reproach ourselves with, neither need we fret and plague ourselves about bad events, which can happen to any man.'-- 'I am causing despatch a secret Order for Boden [on YOU know what], which you will not deliver him till I give sign.'"-- On hearing of the Peace of Fussen, perhaps a day or so later, Friedrich again writes:-- "APRIL [no distinct date; Neisse still?
QUITS Neisse, April 28th].
...

Peace of Fussen, Bavaria turned against me?
'I can say nothing to it,--except, There has come what had to come.

To me remains only to possess myself in patience.