'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist.

Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?