Prudence Therefore Consists In Knowing How To

When Fortune Wishes To Bring Mighty Events To A Successful Conclusion, She Selects Some Man Of Spirit And Ability Who Knows How To Seize The Opportunity She Offers.

A Sign Of Intelligence Is An Awareness Of One's Own Ignorance.

The End Of The Republic Is To Enervate And To Weaken All Other Bodies So As To Increase Its Own Body.

Men Are Driven By Two Principal Impulses, Either By Love Or By Fear.

Men Are So Simple And So Much Inclined To Obey Immediate Needs That A Deceiver Will Never Lack Victims For His Deceptions.