Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

It is legal because I wish it.

Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ?

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.

I see no point in reading.