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

I have never had any [enemies] other than those of the state.

Did you think I was immortal?

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

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

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

A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.