I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.

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.

Did you think I was immortal?

First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.