Good people are always so sure they're right.
My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.
Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
Men fight wars. Women win them.
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.
For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines - some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege - I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words.
Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.
And future deeds crowded round us as the countless stars in the night. [Ger. , Und kunftige Thaten drangen wie die Sterne Rings um uns her unzahlig aus der Nacht. ]
'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.