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

Ambition aspires to descend.

A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.].

Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque Qui fasse a l'univers connaitre un vrai monqrque.].

Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age..

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

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame..

The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes..

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.

In relating our misfortunes, we often feel them lightened..

Violence is just, where kindness is vain..

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

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

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power..

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

The man who pardons easily courts injury..

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

One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much..

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

What destroys one man preserves another..

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