How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?

The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.

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.

No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.

He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

A woman laughing is a woman conquered.