Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
He who despises life is his life's master.
Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.
Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it.