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.

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

We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

Never write a letter and never destroy one.

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

Who will be my equal?