Secrecy Is The First Essential In Affairs

Nothing So Upholds The Laws As The Punishment Of Persons Whose Rank Is As Great As Their Crime.

To Know How To Disguise Is The Knowledge Of Kings.

Deception Is The Knowledge Of Kings.

One Must Believe Neither The People Of The Palace, Who Ordinarily Measure The Power Of The King By The Shape Of His Crown, Which, Being Round, Has No End, Nor Those Who, In The Excesses Of An Indiscreet Zeal, Proclaim Themselves Openly As Partisans Of Rome.

I Do Not Sleep To Let Others Sleep In The Shade Of My Waking.