It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of few.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.

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

Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

One must consider the final result