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.

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

The man who pardons easily courts injury.

This dark brightness that falls from the stars.

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!