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

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.