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

Appear as you may wish to be

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.

One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.

It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.