What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?
It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.
Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
The fortune of war is always doubtful.
Dignity increases more easily than it begins.
Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.