Dramatist

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

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

A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

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

He who pardons easily invites offense.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

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

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

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

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

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

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Dia membuatku terlalu baik untuk mengatakan hal-hal buruk tentang itu; Terlalu menyakitkan bagiku untuk mengatakan yang baik.

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

Kita menang tanpa kemuliaan saat kita menaklukkan tanpa bahaya.

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

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.