It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates.
The end crowneth the work.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
we Princes are set as it were upon stages, in the sight and view of all the world. The least spot is soon spied in our garments, a blemish quickly noticed in our doings.