Ignorance is not innocence.

Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage.

It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.

It would not be difficult to be a better ruler than I was: for I admit that I ruled badly; and even if I was fortunate enough to satisfy my subjects, I was not fortunate enough to satisfy myself.

It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.