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.

Never write a letter and never destroy one.

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.

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.

We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.