Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere.

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

And if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the experience of the contrary had not been seen, but time, which is said to be the father of every truth, will cause it to be discovered.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

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

Any harm you do to a man should be done in such a way that you need not fear his revenge.