A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown.

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing.

A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.