Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

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.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.