Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.
In every treaty, insert a clause which can easily be violated, so that the entire agreement can be broken in case the interests of the State make it expedient to do so.
Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?
The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.