I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.
One often calms one’s grief by recounting it.
As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.
Those who easily forgive invite offenses.
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
Each instant of life is a step toward death.
He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.
To die for one’s country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
Guess if you can, choose if you dare.
He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
A first impulse was never a crime.
To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.
Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives.
They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.
The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.
Every man of courage is a man of his word.