 One is often guilty by being too just. |
| My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them. |
| Every man of courage is a man of his word. Topics: Courage |
| Happiness seems made to be shared. |
| Love is a tyrant sparing none. Topics: Love Is |
| Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect. |
| My sweetest hope is to lose hope. |
| The greater the effort, the greater the glory. |
| To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory. |
| The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. |
| The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic. |
| It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one. |
| He who is hated by all can not expect to live long. |
| Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world. |
| Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed. |
| Ambition aspires to descend. |
| When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory. |
| As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men. |
| A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory. |
| To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred. |
