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

First feelings are always the most natural.

Impatience for victory guarantees defeat

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

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

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.

I see no point in reading.