War Is One Of The Scourges With

A Single Word Has Sometimes Lost Or Won An Empire.

Who Will Be My Equal?

War Is One Of The Scourges With Which It Has Pleased God To Afflict Men.

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.

Give Me Six Lines Written By The Most Honorable Person Alive, And I Shall Find Enough In Them To Condemn Them To The Gallows.