I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown, where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the World.

A subject and a sovereign are clean different things.

I see all the birds are flown.

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

-- Pericles

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

-- Erasmus

Among the people there is no possession so esteemed as the state / yet there is no state in this world like one breath of good health.

-- Suleiman the Magnificent

Make haste slowly.

-- Augustus

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

-- Charles V