One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.

All the armed prophets conquered; all the unarmed ones perished.

In the armies and among every ten men there is one of more life, of more heart, or at least of more authority, who with his courage, with words and by example keeps the others firm and disposed to fight.

If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

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