Deception is the knowledge of kings.

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

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

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

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

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

Never write a letter and never destroy one.

Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss.

Enjoy your Evening.""That will depend on the menu. If it's beef, it will be a tolerable meal. If it's chicken..." Elliot shuddered. "What is the point of chicken?""Eggs?

The Beatitudes correspond to the Decalogue, with blessings in lieu of the forbidden.

They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?

We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.

My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.