Secrecy Is The First Essential In Affairs

Nothing So Upholds The Laws As The Punishment Of Persons Whose Rank Is As Great As Their Crime.

Bakers Of Bread Rolls And Pastry Cooks Will Not Buy Grain Before Eleven O'clock In Winter And Noon In Summer.

I Do Not Sleep To Let Others Sleep In The Shade Of My Waking.

One Must Believe Neither The People Of The Palace, Who Ordinarily Measure The Power Of The King By The Shape Of His Crown, Which, Being Round, Has No End, Nor Those Who, In The Excesses Of An Indiscreet Zeal, Proclaim Themselves Openly As Partisans Of Rome.

Carry On Any Enterprise As If All Future Success Depended On It.