They dread my Army; the luck that I have.

I am sure of their sitting quiet for the dozen years or so which may remain to me of life;--quiet till I have, most likely, done with it.

What! Are we never to have any good of our life, then (NE DOIS-JE DONC JAMAIS JOUIR)?
There is more for me in the true greatness of laboring for the happiness of my subjects, than in the repose of Europe.

I have put Saxony out of a condition to do hurt.

She owes 14,775,000 crowns of debt [two millions and a quarter sterling]; and by the Defensive Alliance which I form with her, I provide myself [but ask Bruhl withal!] a help against Austria.