A good memory is needed after one has lied.

A liar is full of oaths.

Violence is just, where kindness is vain.

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.

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.