I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.
One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.
The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.