Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

Your heart is mine; there I reign. I am content.

He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.

It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.

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

Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.

Brave men are brave from the very first.