If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

He who cannot love must learn to flatter.

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.