It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.

Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.

Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.

There are secret ties, there are sympathies, by the sweet relationship of which souls that are well matched attach themselves to each other, and are affected by I know not what, which cannot be explained

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.

The man who pardons easily courts injury.