If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer.

I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.

Wise judges are we of each other!