It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends.

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.

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

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

One of man's greatest failings is that he looks almost always for an excuse, in the misfortune that befalls him through his own fault, before looking for a remedy-which means he often finds the remedy too late.

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

It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends.