An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past
A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.
One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.
Happiness is meant to be shared.
It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.
All evils are equal when they are extreme.