Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.

Thus it happens in matters of state; for knowing afar off (which it is only given a prudent man to do) the evils that are brewing, they are easily cured. But when, for want of such knowledge, they are allowed to grow so that everyone can recognize them, there is no longer any remedy to be found.

A blast in the human breast is nothing to boast of.

For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.

Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.