It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.
Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.
A good memory is needed after one has lied.