"Men are more apt to forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony."

"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."

"The prince who relies entirely on fortune is ruined when she changes."

"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."

"For a man who wishes to make a profession of good in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good."