There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.