Ofttimes The Test Of Courage Becomes Rather

Thou Knowest Not The Endless Artifices Of A Court. Invented Crimes Are Often There Alleged; But Real Ones, And Those Especially, Which May Offend His Pride, Are Oftentimes Not To A King Divulged.

Alas, 'tis Force Alone That Can Compel To Virtuous Actions A Degenerate People.

For One To Grasp, Whatever Be His Object, Sov'reign Power ... Is An Act Of Perilous Presumption.

There Is A Silence, The Child Of Love, Which Expresses Everything, And Proclaims More Loudly Than The Tongue Is Able To Do; There Are Movements That Are Involuntary Proofs Of What The Soul Feels.

Disgrace Does Not Consist In The Punishment, But In The Crime.