Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on which to model themselves, and who in consequence without much trouble discover his vices and virtues.

I make war on the living, not the dead.

I came, I saw, God conquered.

A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.

Those who believe in ghosts always see them.

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.