But so powerful a State as France must ever be—as she must again be when Her Revolutionary Crisis has passed away, and a solid regular Government restores her prosperity, so sadly interrupted since February last—ought, for the sake of general security and peace, to be surrounded by powerful and wholly independent States; because, as long as men are men, the truth is ever to be kept in mind—Cui plus licet quam debet eum semper plus velle quam licet.