...be more guided by hope than fear.

He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.