"The end justifies the means."

"Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries—for heavy ones they cannot."

"Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling."

"Because there are three ways of holding conquered states that are accustomed to living under their own laws and in freedom: the first is to ruin them, the next is to reside there in person, the third …"

"It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are bad, and that they will use their malignity of mind whenever they have a free opportunity to do so."