Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
Every man of courage is a man of his word.
As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.
The man who pardons easily courts injury.
All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]
Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.
All great virtues become great men.
Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
What destroys one man preserves another.
I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.
How delicious is pleasure after torment!
Brave men are brave from the very first.
Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.