Philip IV of France

"If some among them are innocent, it is expedient that they should be assayed like gold in the furnace, and purged by proper judicial examination."

"To his enemy, Bernard Saisset, he was neither man nor beast, but a statue, "the handsomest man in the world, but unable to do anything but stare fixedly at people without saying a word.""

"Under his reign France was great and the French wretched."