We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

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 inevitably follow.