To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.
Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
