Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

The people you killed seem to be in excellent health.

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.

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

Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.