Laa shay'a waqi'un moutlaq bale kouloun moumkine...We work in the Dark, to serve the Light.

Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants, and honest men are always poor; nor do any ever escape from servitude but the bold and faithless, or from poverty, but the rapacious and fraudulent.

Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.

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

...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence a prince who wants to keep his authority must learn how not to be good, and use that knowledge, or refrain from using it, as necessity requires.

Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself.