As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
One is often guilty by being too just.
To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.