The greater the risk, the sweeter the fruit.
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
To myself alone do I owe my fame.
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.
Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.