The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.
Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.
A first impulse was never a crime.
I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.