Pleasure is the most real good in this life.
Our work is to present things that are as they are.
Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer.
Though I may not be a king in my future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless live an active life and, on top of it, earn less ingratitude.
Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.