The Princes Who Have Done Great Things

He Who Has Once Begun To Live By Rapine Always Finds Reasons For Taking What Is Not His.

The Vulgar Crowd Always Is Taken By Appearances, And The World Consists Chiefly Of The Vulgar.

We Cannot Attribute To Fortune Or Virtue That Which Is Achieved Without Either.

When You Disarm The People, You Commence To Offend Them And Show That You Distrust Them Either Through Cowardice Or Lack Of Confidence, And Both Of These Opinions Generate Hatred.

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