The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
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.
The Swiss are well armed and very free.
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...
It is far better to earn the confidence of the people than to rely on fortresses.
Nevertheless, that our freewill may not be altogether extinguished, I think it may be true that fortune is the ruler of half our actions, but that she allows the other half or a little less to be gove...
One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.
Men hesitate less to injure a man who makes himself loved than to injure one who makes himself feared for their love is held by a chain of obligation which because of men's wickedness is broken on...
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
The memory of their former freedom will not let them rest; so that the safest course is either to destroy them, or to go and live in them.
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 th...
Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
Thus it is well to seem merciful faithful humane religious and upright and also to be so but the mind should remain so balanced that were it needful not to be so you should be able and know how to cha...
For a Monarchy readily becomes a Tyranny, an Aristocracy an Oligarchy, while a Democracy tends to degenerate into Anarchy. So that if the founder of a State should establish any one of these three for...
For Time, driving all things before it, may bring with it evil as well as good.
And let it here be noted that men are either to be kindly treated, or utterly crushed, since they can revenge lighter injuries, but not graver.
ما يمكن التنبؤ بة يمكن علاجة بسهولة، أما اذا انتظرنا الئ ان تداهمنا المخاطر، فسيصبح العلاج متأخراً عن موعده وتستصعي العلة
It is truly natural and ordinary thing to desire gain; and when those who can succeed attempt it, they will always be praised and not blamed. But if they cannot succeed, yet try anyway, they are guilt...
CHAPTER XXVI.—A new Prince in a City or Province of which he has taken Possession, ought to make Everything new. Whosoever becomes prince of a city or State, more especially if his position be so inse...
