When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.
We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
What destroys one man preserves another.
The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.
Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.
He who allows me to rule is in fact my master