It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!
I believe everything to be just when a king ordains it.
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.