Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
All religions have been made by men.
The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.
Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.
I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.