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Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.

He who forgives readily only invites offense.

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

Peace is produced by war.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Brave men are brave from the very first.

Ambition aspires to descend.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

A first impulse was never a crime.

This dark brightness that falls from the stars.

Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

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

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

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

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

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

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.

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

I would not like a king who could obey.

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

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

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

Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!

True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

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

One is often guilty by being too just.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.

He who pardons easily invites offense.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.

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

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

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

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

It matters more how one gives than what one gives.

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Every man of courage is a man of his word.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

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

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

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