The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.