He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

Ambition aspires to descend.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

He who pardons easily invites offense.

Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

This dark brightness that falls from the stars.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

One is often guilty by being too just.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

It matters more how one gives than what one gives.

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

He who forgives readily only invites offense.

Peace is produced by war.

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

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.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

Brave men are brave from the very first.

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

A first impulse was never a crime.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

I would not like a king who could obey.

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.