Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.
Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.
If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard.
To be feared is much safer then to be loved.
A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.