To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
My sweetest hope is to lose hope
They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.
Brave men are brave from the very first.
By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]
Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.
Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.
Happiness seems made to be shared.
He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.
Just as We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. So too we never taste sadness completely, as things could always be worse in some way and for this we can be grateful.
A liar is full of oaths.
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years.
Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
Peace is produced by war.
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
What destroys one man preserves another.
Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always aiming toward some object, it falls back on itself, having nothing else on which to rest; and having reached the summit, it longs to descend.
One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.
All great virtues become great men.
A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
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