Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.
Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always aiming toward some object, it falls back on itself, having nothing else on which to rest; and having reached the summit, it longs to descend.
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
I would not like a king who could obey.
A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.