It matters more how one gives than what one gives.

To myself alone do I owe my fame..

Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.].

Doubt, but still hate!.

He who forgives readily only invites offense..

It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame..

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom..

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world..

And the combat ceased, for want of combatants..

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else..

Every man of courage is a man of his word..

Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.].

If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so..

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them..

Love is a tyrant sparing none..

Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always aiming toward some objec….

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death..

The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen..

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred..

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.

Who is all-powerful should fear everything..