If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so.
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.
Doubt, but still hate!
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.