Secrecy Is The First Essential In Affairs

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.

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

Had Luther And Calvin Been Confined Before They Had Begun To Dogmatize, The States Would Have Been Spared Many Troubles.

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

We May Employ Artifice To Deceive A Rival, Anything Against Our Enemies.