[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things of the same kind.

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

Honor is unknown in despotic states.

Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.