Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
From Pierre Corneille
A first impulse was never a crime.
Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
Love is a tyrant sparing none.
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.
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