Rome alone can resist Rome.
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.