Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

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

Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.

Forgiveness proceeds from a generous soul.

The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.

For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.

Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.