Virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.

If you want your subordinates to do or not do certain things, build a city.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the wants of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer himself to be tricked.

The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.

It is better to act and repent, than not to act and regret.

Men rise from one ambition to another. First, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in such a way that it does not become known, or if it does become known, that you have a ready and quick defense.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.

Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder lessens ferocity