[The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread...and a thousand other things of the same kind.

I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.