Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
He who allows me to rule is in fact my master
Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.
Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.
We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.