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When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
How much must I overcome before I triumph?
Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.
It takes good memory to keep up a lie.
The greater the risk, the sweeter the fruit.
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
Who is all-powerful should fear everything.
I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.
He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.
It matters more how one gives than what one gives.
I believe everything to be just when a king ordains it.
He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.
The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.
Your heart is mine; there I reign. I am content.
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
He who pardons easily invites offense.
Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always aiming toward some object, it falls back on itself, having nothing else on which to rest; and having reached the summit, it longs to descend.
If you betray me, can I take a better revenge than to love the person you hate?
Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.
Those who easily forgive invite offenses.
Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us.
Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.
To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day.
Happiness seems made to be shared.
There are secret ties, there are sympathies, by the sweet relationship of which souls that are well matched attach themselves to each other, and are affected by I know not what, which cannot be explained
Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within; the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under its beauty! What fair exteriors conceal base souls!
These little rulers who may rule a year,
Who see their pow'r will be for such short time,
Seek to abort the fruit of well made plans,
Lest it belong to those who follow them.
As they have little share of public goods,
They try to harvest much for their own selves,
Each man, they know, will gladly pardon them,
In hopes of one day profiting the same:
The people's state of all states is the worst.
--Cinna
When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.
Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it.
What destroys one man preserves another.
The greater the effort,
the greater the glory.
It is only blood that can wash away such an outrage; die or kill.
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.
He who despises life is his life's master.
Just as We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. So too we never taste sadness completely, as things could always be worse in some way and for this we can be grateful.
A good memory is needed after one has lied.
In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.
It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.
He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.
Guess if you can, choose if you dare.
Every man of courage is a man of his word.
Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.
Patience and time conquer all things.
All great virtues become great men.
It is a law, of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us.
A first impulse was never a crime.
Reason and love are sworn enemies.
It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.
As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings.
When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.
Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives.
A liar is full of oaths.
I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years.
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.
Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.
Obedience is a hard profession.
Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?
To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.
The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.
Your Christians, whom one persecutes in vain, have something in them that surpasses the human. They lead a life of such innocence,that the heavens owe them some recognition: that they arise the stronger the more they are beaten down is hardly the result of common virtues.
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
He who fears not death fears not a threat.
In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.
A liar is always lavish of oaths.
As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.
Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
The man who pardons easily courts injury.
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
The fire which seems out often sleeps beneath the cinders.
By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
[Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]
To myself alone do I owe my fame.
Ambition aspires to descend.
Each instant of life is a step toward death.
Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.
