Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.
He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.
How delicious is pleasure after torment!
Patience and time conquer all things.
Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.