“Princes' sports are these:
A mill they'll spare: a province they will seize.”

—  François Andrieux

Ce sont là jeux de prince:
On respecte un moulin: on vole une province.
Le Meunier de Sans-Souci. (Ed. 1818, Vol. III., p. 208).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 24.

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Ce sont là jeux de prince: On respecte un moulin: on vole une province.

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