Men Ought Either To Be Well Treated,

He Who Has Once Begun To Live By Rapine Always Finds Reasons For Taking What Is Not His.

Men Are Always Averse To Enterprises In Which They Foresee Difficulties.

A Government Which Does Not Trust Its Citizens To Be Armed Is Not Itself To Be Trusted.

And When Neither Their Property Nor Honour Is Touched, The Majority Of Men Live Content, And He Has Only To Contend With The Ambition Of A Few, Whom He Can Curb With Ease In Many Ways.

And It Will Always Happen That He Who Is Not Your Friend Will Request Your Neutrality And He Who Is Your Friend Will Ask You To Declare Yourself By Taking Up Arms. And Irresolute Princes, In Order To Avoid Present Dangers, Follow The Neutral Road Most Of The Time, And Most Of The Time They Are Ruined.