One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
Patience and time conquer all things.
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.
The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.