Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Anyone who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it; for such a city may always justify rebellion in the name of liberty and its ancient institutions.

The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.

One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up.

He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.