Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.
How delicious is pleasure after torment!
Just as We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. So too we never taste sadness completely, as things could always be worse in some way and for this we can be grateful.
Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.