Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.
The Last Argument of Kings.
There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.
Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?
I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.