Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.
It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.
He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.
It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.
I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.
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.