Further, I would rather have my husband than my father king--would rather be ranked a king's wife than daughter.

It is better to embrace a monarch in one's home, than to give him homage from afar; it is nobler to be a king's bride than his courtier.

Thou, too, must surely prefer thyself to thy wife's father for bearing the sceptre; for nature has made each one nearest to himself.

If there be a will for the deed, a way will open; there is nothing but yields to the wit of man.
The feast must be kept, the banquet decked, the preparations looked to, and my father bidden.

The path to treachery shall be smoothed by a pretence of friendship, for nothing cloaks a snare better than the name of kindred.