Human beings remain constant in their methods of conduct.

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

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.

Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.

....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.

Human beings remain constant in their methods of conduct.