Who is all-powerful should fear everything..

Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants..

Brave men are brave from the very first..

Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age..

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness..

What destroys one man preserves another..

It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice..

Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it..

It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit..

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.

He who pardons easily invites offense..

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace..

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace..

These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within; the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under its beaut….

Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no e….

How delicious is pleasure after torment!.

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!.

I would not like a king who could obey..

All great virtues become great men..

The worst of all States is the democratic State..

Your arm is unvanquished, but not invincible..