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

The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace.

It is much safer for the prince to be feared than loved, but he ought to avoid making himself hated.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

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

They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.