War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer.
Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.
Who will be my equal?
Never write a letter and never destroy one.
I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.