Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.

I was born, have lived, and will die free.

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

To some people everything is permitted.

There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.

There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them.

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