Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.

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.

Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.

For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part of the people.