1. “Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.”
2. “War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.”
3. “Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
4. “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”
5. “Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.”
6. “If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
7. “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
8. “A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.”
9. It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles”.”
10. “The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
11. “Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
12. “He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.”
13. “Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble,, and in choosing the lesser evil.”
14. “One must never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up.”
15. “Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.”
16. “The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.”
17. “We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.”
18. “Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical and greedy of gain.”
19. “Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.”
20. “The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in everyway necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.”
