He who knows how to dissimulate knows how to reign. [Fr., Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare.]

The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre; je veux dire qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.]

And in the years he reigned; through all the country wide, There was no cause for weeping, save when the good man died. [Fr., Ce n'est que lorsqu'il expira Que le peuple, qui l'enterra pleura.]

'Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,

To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]

Royal blood isn't blue, it is a jaundiced shade of red and riddled with broken chromosomes