Occupation: Dramatist Birth: June 6, 1606 Death: October 1, 1684
I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself..
I would tell you I love you, Sir, if I knew what it was to love..
He who despises life is his life's master..
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!.
There are secret ties, there are sympathies, by the sweet relationship of which souls that are well matched attach themselves to each other, and are ….
It is a law, of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us..
I believe everything to be just when a king ordains it..
The greater the risk, the sweeter the fruit..
Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved..
Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious..
It is the gift of heaven and not of reason..
They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always..
Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats..
When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it ca….
A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little..
The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get..
Have others fear you, and I will have no fear..
Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man..
Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear..
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality..
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave..