He who builds on the people, builds on the mud

Appear as you may wish to be

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

The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.

One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.

In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.