Every man is his own worst enemy
Ignorance is not innocence.
Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.
It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.
Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage.
Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.
I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women
You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.
Life is too short to be able to love as one should.
To some people everything is permitted.
Free I was born, have lived, and will die.
We grow old more through indolence, than through age.
I love the storm and fear the calm.
She converted to the Catholic Religion and the monarch of Sweden then had to be a Protestant.
While I was thus carrying out my obligations, I never did anything with which my conscience would have to find fault
She converted to the Catholic Religion and the monarch had to be a Protestant.
It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.
God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.
We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.
I was born, have lived, and will die free.
As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.
Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.
There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.
It would not be difficult to be a better ruler than I was: for I admit that I ruled badly; and even if I was fortunate enough to satisfy my subjects, I was not fortunate enough to satisfy myself.
There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them.
One can really love only once.
