I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small..

The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them..

Liars are always most disposed to swear..

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked..

Necessity inspires the fatal thought..

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence..

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime..

If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it..

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live..

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime..

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble..

First thoughts are not always the best..

Joy surfeited turns to sorrow..

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot..

Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain..

The time for hope is gone, and come for fear..

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption..

Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief..

A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears..

That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond..

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are movements that ….