One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.].

I believe everything to be just when a king ordains it..

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel..

A good memory is needed after one has lied..

All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.].

The people you killed seem to be in excellent health..

Rome alone can resist Rome..

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied..

Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it..

I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself..

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate..

Peace is produced by war..

The man who pardons easily courts injury..

A first impulse was never a crime..

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse..

A liar is always lavish of oaths..

To myself alone do I owe my fame. [Fr., Je ne dois qu'a moi seul toute ma renommee.].

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved..

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame..

Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate!.