To Know How To Dissemble Is The

If God Forbade Drinking, Would He Have Made Wine So Good?

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: Wrongs May Well Try Him, And Touch Him, But Cannot Imprint In Him Any False Stamp.

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.

To Mislead A Rival, Deception Is Permissable; One May Use All Means Against His Enemies.

I Have Never Had Any [enemies] Other Than Those Of The State.