Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
What is deferred is not avoided.
Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.