“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.”
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.