Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.
Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.
Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.
I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.
A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.