A Good Tale Evil Told

They Wonder Much To Hear That Gold, Which In Itself Is So Useless A Thing, Should Be Everywhere So Much Esteemed, That Even Men For Whom It Was Made, And By Whom It Has Its Value, Should Yet Be Thought Of Less Value Than It Is.

What Though Youth Gave Love And Roses, Age Still Leaves Us Friends And Wine

The Most Part Of All Princes Have More Delight In Warlike Manners And Feats Of Chivalry Than In The Good Feats Of Peace.

I Should Only Ever Tell The King What He Ought To Do, Not What He Could Do. For If The Lion Knows His Own Strength, No Man Could Control Him.

One Man To Live In Pleasure And Wealth, Whiles All Other Weap And Smart For It, That Is The Part Not Of A King, But Of A Jailor.