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

Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and want to bear less danger, the more the enemy is weak or the less the enemy is cautious, so much more must you esteem him.

The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.