A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is ne ...

A prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If his own prowess fails to compare with theirs, at least it has an ...

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

God creates men, but they choose each other.

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.