It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.

One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

There is nothing so difficult or so dangerous as to undertake to change the order of things.

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

The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.