To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.John Milton · Paradise Lost
Read the saying and check its sourcesTo reign is worth ambition though in Hell:Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
John Milton · Paradise Lost
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- Wikiquote (en) · John Milton · Quotes / Paradise Lost (1667) · estratto «To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.» · Compare: "With the proud disdain of a tyrant he chose to rejoice over his subjects rather than to be a subject himself", Augustine on Satan in The City of God (Penguin Classics translation by Henry S. Bettenson)
- John Milton · Paradise Lost · Riscontro testuale dell’estratto; edizione Gutenberg 26
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