In relating our misfortunes, we often feel them lightened.
How delicious is pleasure after torment!
And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.
The worst of all States is the democratic State.
Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!
He who despises life is his life's master.
The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.
Every man of courage is a man of his word.
The greater the risk, the sweeter the fruit.
I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.
The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.
He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.
Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.
He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.
As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
Who is all-powerful should fear everything.
For souls nobly born, valor doesn't await the passing of years
I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so.
Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
Your Christians, whom one persecutes in vain, have something in them that surpasses the human. They lead a life of such innocence,that the heavens owe them some recognition: that they arise the stronger the more they are beaten down is hardly the result of common virtues.
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