Extreme justice is often injustice.

Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.

If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.

On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.

I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.

Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!