I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles
There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new. Their support is lukewarm ... partly because men are generally incredulous, never really trusting new things unless they have tested them by experience.
Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
It is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved? It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
Never do an enemy a small injury.
There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible.
Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.
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.
Ability and perseverance are the weapons of weakness.
Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.
If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.
Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.
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