My Care Is Like My Shadow In

O Fortune, How Thy Restless, Wavering State Has Fraught With Cares My Troubled Wit!

Princes Have Big Ears Which Hear Far And Near.

I Would Rather Go To Any Extreme Than Suffer Anything That Is Unworthy Of My Reputation, Or Of That Of My Crown.

I Shall Lend Credit To Nothing Against My People Which Parents Would Not Believe Against Their Own Children.

I Have Never Been Able To Be So Allured By The Prospect Of Advantages Or So Terrified By Misfortunes, Swayed By Honours Or Fettered By Affection, Nay Not Even So Smitten By The Fear Of Death, As To Enter Upon Marriage.