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

It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men.

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.

Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die.

Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.