Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
Just as We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. So too we never taste sadness completely, as things could always be worse in some way and for this we can be grateful.
The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.
Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us.
Brave men are brave from the very first.
Your heart is mine; there I reign. I am content.