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.
A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.
Did you think I was immortal?
Never write a letter and never destroy one.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.