....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory.

For the mob is always impressed by appearances and by results, and the world is composed of the mob.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

With difficulty he is beaten who can estimate his own forces and those of his enemy.

One must consider the final result

My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.

Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.