Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again.

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

The answer is, of course, that it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved.

Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.

He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.