The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong$$$ yet the wave crashes upon you.

There is no avoiding war$$$ it can only be postponed to the advantage of your enemy.

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

He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is easy for him to do$$$ since all they ask is not to be oppressed.

Let no man$$$ therefore$$$ lose heart from thinking that he cannot do what others have done before him; for$$$ as I said in my Preface$$$ men are born$$$ and live$$$ and die$$$ always in accordance with the same rules.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

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

The soldier above all others prays for peace$$$ for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Where God builds a church$$$ the devil builds a chapel.