(a Ruler) Cannot And Should Not Keep

Of Mankind We May Say In General They Are Fickle, Hypocritical, And Greedy Of Gain.

Men Are Always Wicked At Bottom Unless They Are Made Good By Some Compulsion.

Because There Are Three Classes Of Intellects: One Which Comprehends By Itself; Another Which Appreciates What Others Comprehend; And A Third Which Neither Comprehends By Itself Nor By The Showing Of Others; The First Is The Most Excellent, The Second Is Good, The Third Is Useless.

Good Order Makes Men Bold, And Confusion, Cowards.

States That Rise Quickly, Just As All The Other Things Of Nature That Are Born And Grow Rapidly, Cannot Have Roots And Ramifications; The First Bad Weather Kills Them