An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

I would tell you I love you, Sir, if I knew what it was to love.

The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.

As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings.

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.