- If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
- He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
- Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
- We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
- Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.