A liar is always lavish of oaths.
As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always aiming toward some object, it falls back on itself, having nothing else on which to rest; and having reached the summit, it longs to descend.
Guess if you can, choose if you dare.
It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.