Good King Stanislas and the Forty Thieves

Under a Saxon king, Loosen your belt to eat and drink!

— Polish saying Original text: Za króla Sasa Jedz, pij i popuszczaj pasa!

I too am a king of the Poles; I lost my kingdom twice, but Providence gave me another state, in which I have been able to do more good than all the Sarmatian kings ever managed to do on the banks of the Vistula.

— Voltaire: Candide, or Optimism, trans. Robert M. Adams, ed. Nicholas Cronk, W.W. Norton & Company, 2016