The Last Argument of Kings.
Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.
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.
Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.