Deception is the knowledge of kings.
Wise judges are we of each other!
We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.
I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.
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.
Did you think I was immortal?