"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."

"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."

"To be feared is much safer than to be loved."

"The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms, and where there are good arms there m…"

"Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance, whereas if you wound them incurably, they are unable to do so."