My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.
— Charles V
I came, I saw, God conquered.
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
Iron hand in a velvet glove.
Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.
