If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
Did you think I was immortal?
We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.
Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.
Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.