We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. Votes: 17
Flee an enemy who knows your weakness. Votes: 14
Reason and love are sworn enemies. Votes: 8
Ambition aspires to descend. Votes: 7
My sweetest hope is to lose hope. Votes: 2
Va, je ne te hais point. Votes: 1
A liar is always lavish of oaths. Votes: 0
Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved. Votes: 0
Love is a tyrant sparing none. Votes: 0
Happiness seems made to be shared. Votes: 0
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion. Votes: 0
A first impulse was never a crime. Votes: 0
A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.] Votes: 0
A liar is full of oaths. Votes: 0
All great virtues become great men. Votes: 0
All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.] Votes: 0
Ambition aspires to descend Votes: 0
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend. Votes: 0
Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day. Votes: 0
Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.] Votes: 0
Doubt, but still hate! Votes: 0
Happiness is meant to be shared. Votes: 0
It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice. Votes: 0
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel. Votes: 0
My sweetest hope is to lose hope Votes: 0
Obedience is a hard profession. Votes: 0
Peace is produced by war. Votes: 0
Rome alone can resist Rome. Votes: 0
The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen. Votes: 0
To myself alone do I owe my fame. Votes: 0