Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it.
The people you killed seem to be in excellent health.
Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.
Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
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.