I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Is it better to be loved or feared?

I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.

Verträge bricht man um des Nutzens willen.