There Is An Italian Proverb Which Saith,

Affection! Affection Is False.

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.

Monarchs Ought To Put To Death The Authors And Instigators Of War, As Their Sworn Enemies And As Dangers To Their States.

Be Always Faithful To Me, As I Always Desire To Keep You In Peace; And If There Have Been Wiser Kings, None Has Ever Loved You More Than I Have.

Had I Been Crested, Not Cloven, My Lords, You Had Not Treated Me Thus.