Keep a good table and attend to the ladies. [Fr., Tenez bonne table et soignez les femmes.]

I want to the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make make trading much easier.

Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.

All Italians are plunderers. [It., Gli Italiani tutti ladroni.] Not all but a good part. [It., Non tutti, ma buona parte.]

Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. [Fr., Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siecles vous contemplent.]

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. [Fr., Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas.]