Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.

He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.

All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

There is nothing so difficult or so dangerous as to undertake to change the order of things.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

A wise prince then...should never be idle in times of peace but should industriously lay up stores of which to avail himself in times of adversity so that when fortune abandons him he may be prepared to resist her blows.