No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
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.
A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
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.
