“Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.”
Tip: press → for another quote, C to copy, S to share.
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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 are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.