One is often guilty by being too just.
He who allows me to rule is in fact my master
The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.
The greater the risk, the sweeter the fruit.
Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.
Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.