Quote #4
In my realm, the sun never sets. (Nunca se ponia el sol)
More from Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
- Exterminate heresy, lest it take root and overturn the state and social order.
- I make war on the living, not on the dead.
- A man who knows four languages is worth four men.
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- Fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman; if she be too much wooed, she is the farther off.
- I could fit Paris in my Ghent.
- I see that luck resembles women: it prefers a young king than an old emperor.
- Iron hand in a velvet glove.