Is it better to be loved or feared?

To be feared is much safer then to be loved.

How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.

The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold.

Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

One must be a fox to recognize traps and a lion to frighten wolves