Is It Better To Be Loved Or

The Prince Must Be A Lion, But He Must Also Know How To Play The Fox.

It May Be Observed, That Provinces Amid The Vicissitudes To Which They Are Subject, Pass From Order Into Confusion, And Afterward Recur To A State Of Order Again; For The Nature Of Mundane Affairs Not Allowing Them To Continue In An Even Course, When They Have Arrived At Their Greatest Perfection, They Soon Begin To Decline.

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

Nature Creates Few Men Brave, Industry And Training Makes Many.

We Cannot Attribute To Fortune Or Virtue That Which Is Achieved Without Either.