A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.
A princely mind will undo a private family.
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.