The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.

God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.