Any harm you do to a man should be done in such a way that you need not fear his revenge.

Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.

Any harm you do to a man should be done in such a way that you need not fear his revenge.

Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants, and honest men are always poor; nor do any ever escape from servitude but the bold and faithless, or from poverty, but the rapacious and fraudulent.

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new. Their support is lukewarm ... partly because men are generally incredulous, never really trusting new things unless they have tested them by experience.