What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
Assassination's the fastest way.
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.