Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.