Your heart is mine; there I reign. I am content.
The worst of all States is the democratic State.
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.
When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.
Violence is just, where kindness is vain.
Peace is produced by war.