The Last Argument of Kings.
Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ?
Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.
I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
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.
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.