Never write a letter and never destroy one.

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

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

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

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

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.