Never do your enemy a minor injury.

In respect to foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes.

And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and manifest reason for it; but above all he must abstain from taking the property of others, for men forget more easily the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.

Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.

Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.

Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.

Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.