Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.
A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.
it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.
Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.
A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Politics have no relation to morals.
Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy.
All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.
Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees.
Before all else, be armed.
One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.
A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.
A battle that you win cancels all your mistakes.
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.
You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else's self-esteem.
The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.
Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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