We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.
It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.
There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.
As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.
We grow old more through indolence, than through age.
One can really love only once.