Since There Is Nothing So Well Worth

It Is A Great Matter To Be In Authority Over Others; For Authority, If It Be Rightly Used, Will Make You Feared Beyond Your Actual Resources.

To Relinquish A Present Good Through Apprehension Of A Future Evil Is In Most Instances Unwise ... From A Fear Which May Afterwards Turn Out Groundless, You Lost The Good That Lay Within Your Grasp.

We Fight To Great Disadvantage When We Fight With Those Who Have Nothing To Lose.

Experience Has Always Shown, And Reason Also, That Affairs Which Depend On Many Seldom Succeed.

Conspiracies, Since They Cannot Be Engaged In Without The Fellowship Of Others, Are For That Reason Most Perilous; For As Most Men Are Either Fools Or Knaves, We Run Excessive Risk In Making Such Folk Our Companions.