Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony

A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.

Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves

States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them

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