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.

What is necessary is never a risk.

Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.

There are no small steps in great affairs.

Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.

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

In a major matter no details are small.