Tout est perdu fors l'honneur
All is lost save honour
- King Francis I of France after his defeat at Pavia

Nemo me impune lacessit
- Motto of the Crown of Scotland & of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle

First ponder, then dare!
- Helmuth von Moltke (the Elder)

Cuius regio eius religio
He he controls of the area controls the religion
- Proverb later attributed to the Religious Peace of Augsburg (1555)

L'état c'est moi
I am the state
- Attributed to King Louis XIV of France

La Garde meurt, mais ne se rend pas
The Guards die, but never surrender
- Attributed to Pierre Jacques Étienne, Count Cambronne, at Waterloo

I make war on the living, not the dead
- Charles V, HRE, when advised to hang Luther's corpse on the gallows