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

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

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

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

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

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

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

Every man of courage is a man of his word.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

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

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

Ambition aspires to descend.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

He who pardons easily invites offense.

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

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

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

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

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

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

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

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

This dark brightness that falls from the stars.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

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

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

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

One is often guilty by being too just.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

It matters more how one gives than what one gives.

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

He who forgives readily only invites offense.

Peace is produced by war.

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

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

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

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

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