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

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.

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

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

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

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

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

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

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

I would not like a king who could obey.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

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

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

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

A first impulse was never a crime.

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

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.

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

Brave men are brave from the very first.

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