Just as We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. So too we never taste sadness completely, as things could always be worse in some way and for this we can be grateful.
Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
Ambition aspires to descend
As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.