More from Holy Roman Emperor Charles V

  1. A man who knows four languages is worth four men.
  2. In my realm, the sun never sets. (Nunca se ponia el sol)
  3. Fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman; if she be too much wooed, she is the farther off.
  4. I make war on the living, not on the dead.
  5. I was managed and governed by M. de Chievres, and I was not old enough to know these Kingdoms or experienced enough to govern them. And as …
  6. I could fit Paris in my Ghent.
  7. I see that luck resembles women: it prefers a young king than an old emperor.
  8. Iron hand in a velvet glove.

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