Percy Bysshe Shelley Quote

The good want power, but to weep barren tears.
The powerful goodness want: worse need for them.
The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom;
And all best things are thus confused to ill.
Many are strong and rich, and would be just,
But live among their suffering fellow-men
As if none felt: they know not what they do.


Fury, Act I, l. 625–631. - Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)


The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom;...

The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom;...

The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom;...

The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom;...