A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.

Humans are almost always lonely.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.