:17:01
And I, of anticipation.
:17:04
Your Majesty, our university at Uppsala
is the oldest in Sweden...
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one of the oldest in Europe.
:17:12
To admit professors from Spain and Italy
might corrupt the purity of our teaching.
:17:17
The danger is not so much of corruption
as of staleness.
:17:21
We need new wine in the old bottles.
:17:23
Here is the new draft of the treaty
with Cromwell, Your Majesty.
:17:27
There are several important changes in it,
so if you read it, please...
:17:30
that I may know your opinion.
:17:31
I will do so, Chancellor.
:17:36
Your Majesty, I must again speak to you
about your marriage with Prince Charles.
:17:41
This eternal talk about Charles.
:17:44
I cannot tell you how it wearies me.
:17:46
I do not see eye to eye with Charles
about anything.
:17:48
- He is a hero.
- There are varieties of heroes.
:17:51
He is a hero at fighting,
and fighting bores me.
:17:54
- His only gift is with the sword.
- The sword has made Sweden great.
:17:59
Yes, but do we not exalt that gift
too much, Chancellor?
:18:04
You cannot remake the world,
Your Majesty.
:18:07
Why not?
:18:08
Look, Chancellor, the philosophers
remake it, the artists remake it...
:18:12
the scientists remake it.
Why not we who wield the power?
:18:17
The people follow blindly the generals
who lead them to destruction.
:18:21
Will they not follow us who lead them
beyond themselves...
:18:25
where there is grace and beauty,
gaiety and freedom?
:18:29
Europe is an armed camp, Your Majesty,
not Utopia peopled with shepherds.
:18:33
But Chancellor...
:18:46
Snow again. Eternal snow.
:18:50
Your Majesty, it is for Sweden.
It is your duty.
:18:54
Why is it my duty?
:18:56
My days and nights are given up
to the service of the state.
:18:59
I am so cramped with duty
that to be able to read a book...