To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.
Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.
It takes good memory to keep up a lie