Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

The greater the risk, the sweeter the fruit.

He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.

If you betray me, can I take a better revenge than to love the person you hate?