It Is Only Natural, Of Course, That

In The First Place, Most Princes Apply Themselves To The Arts Of War, In Which I Have Neither Ability Nor Interest, Instead Of To The Good Arts Of Peace. They Are Generally More Set On Acquiring New Kingdoms By Hook Or By Crook Than On Governing Well Those That They Already Have.

Getting Married Is Like Putting One's Hand In A Bag Containing 99 Serpents And One Eel.

For If You Suffer Your People To Be Ill-educated, And Their Manners To Be Corrupted From Their Infancy, And Then Punish Them For Those Crimes To Which Their First Education Disposed Them, What Else Is To Be Concluded From This, But That You First Make Thieves And Then Punish Them.

Take Something From Yourself, To Give To Another, That Is Humane And Gentle And Never Takes Away As Much Comfort As It Brings Again.

What Is Deferred Is Not Avoided.