Wise Judges Are We Of Each Other!

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.

Give Me Six Lines Written By The Most Honorable Person Alive, And I Shall Find Enough In Them To Condemn Them To The Gallows.

We May Employ Artifice To Deceive A Rival, Anything Against Our Enemies.

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.