I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.
Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.
It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.