Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.