Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
