Rome alone can resist Rome.
He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.
I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.