It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who have taken up a prejudice against you, either from envy or from any other cause.

For one change always leaves a dovetail into which another will fit.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

In war, discipline can do more than fury.

There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.

The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.

You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and want to bear less danger, the more the enemy is weak or the less the enemy is cautious, so much more must you esteem him.