Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.

Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.

There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.

Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

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