"A prince must have no other object, no other thought, nor take anything else for his art, but war and its orders and discipline."

"Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them."

"For it can be said of men in general that they are ungrateful, fickle, feigners and dissemblers, shirkers of dangers, eager for gain."

"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."

"God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us."