None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
Conspicuous by his absence.
The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.