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| No one should therefore fear that he cannot accomplish what others have accomplished, for, men are born, live, and die in quite the same way they always have. | | Uncategorized | |
| Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain. | | Uncategorized | |
| One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others. | | Uncategorized | |
| One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. | | Uncategorized | |
| Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor. | | Uncategorized | |
| Politics have no relation to morals. | | Politics | |
| Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society. | | Uncategorized | |
| Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more. | | Uncategorized | |
| Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking. | | Uncategorized | |
| Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. | | Uncategorized | |
| So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied | | Uncategorized | |
| States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them | | Nations | |
| Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces. | | Uncategorized | |
| The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms... where there are good arms there must be good laws... | | Constitution; Country; Justice; Law and lawyers; Weapons | |
| The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. | | Adulthood; Children | |
| The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. | | Uncategorized | |
| The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. | | Intelligence | |
| 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 | | Country; Law and lawyers; Weapons | |
| The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. | | Life | |
| The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all. | | Uncategorized | |
