Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness..

First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush..

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion..

I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking..

We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies..

Wise judges are we of each other!.

A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: ….

Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him..

I have never had any [enemies] other than those of the state..

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men..

I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation..

Did you think I was immortal?.

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it..

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him..

Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer; bakers of large loaves will not buy gra….

Never write a letter and never destroy one..

To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.].

Who will be my equal?.

Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer..

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings..

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles..