One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
He who fears not death fears not a threat.
Your heart is mine; there I reign. I am content.
We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
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.