Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the ancients wanted their citizens to be trained in every warlike action.

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.

For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying

In war, discipline can do more than fury.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.