"Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?"

"There are no secrets that time does not reveal."

"A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt."

"In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before."

"Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes."

"I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me."

"On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least."

"Justice in the extreme is often unjust."

"My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled."

"The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love."

"Without money honor is merely a disease."

"Too much virtue can be criminal."

"I have pushed virtue to outright brutality."

"Is a faith without action a sincere faith?"

"Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter."

"Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!"

"The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes."

"Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it."

"The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one."

"It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends."

"According as the man is, so must you humour him."

"Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking."

"A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy."

"I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination."

"There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance."

"I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want."