“Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.”
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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
