Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible
He who fears not death fears not a threat.
A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
If you betray me, can I take a better revenge than to love the person you hate?
There are secret ties, there are sympathies, by the sweet relationship of which souls that are well matched attach themselves to each other, and are affected by I know not what, which cannot be explained
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past
One is often guilty by being too just.
He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.
Violence is just, where kindness is vain.
When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.
As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings.
Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
Obedience is a hard profession.
In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.
He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]
A good memory is needed after one has lied.
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.
He who allows me to rule is in fact my master
My sweetest hope is to lose hope
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
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