When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.

Rome alone can resist Rome.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.