Deception is the knowledge of kings.

I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.

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

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

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

To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies.

Who will be my equal?