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| For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained | | Law and lawyers; Manners | |
| For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are | | Appearance; Influence; Mankind; Reality | |
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| God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us | | God | |
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| He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss. | | Uncategorized | |
| He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building. | | Uncategorized | |
| He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command. | | Uncategorized | |
| Hence it comes about that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed. | | Uncategorized | |
| I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself | | Prudence | |
| I shall always esteem it not much to live in a city where the laws do less than men, because that fatherland is desirable where possessions and friends can be securely enjoyed, not where they can be easily taken from you, and friends for few of thems | | Admiration | |
| I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it. | | Uncategorized | |
| If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared | | Uncategorized | |
| If One Wishes That a Sect of a Republic Live a Long Time, It Is Necessary to Draw It Back Often toward Its Principle | | Uncategorized | |
| In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sa | | Authority; Law and lawyers; Truth | |
| It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent | | Uncategorized | |
| It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. | | Uncategorized | |
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| It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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 | | Evil; Law and lawyers | |
