My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
It is a law, of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us.
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.