Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.
Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.
Brave men are brave from the very first.
I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.
A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.
There are secret ties, there are sympathies, by the sweet relationship of which souls that are well matched attach themselves to each other, and are affected by I know not what, which cannot be explained