The word impossible is not French.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

A prince should suspect everything.

Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.

My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.