The Habsburg heiress versus the European world of men: Zitat 1

I applied my mind to the death of the Emperor, the last Habsburg ruler; he had left his daughter with a contested inheritance, and Caesar’s throne was free. (...) If one adds to all these inducements the attraction of my strong and mobile army, well-ordered finances, the great assets with which the crown treasury was filled (and perhaps also the desire to make a name for myself), then one knows all the reasons I had for declaring war on Maria Theresa, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia.