Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones …

There can be no country or dignity without unity of the people, and there can be no unity without agreement, and there can be no agreement without conciliation…