(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.

Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

Love is always the first casualty of a religious war, the second is Truth and the third...Humanity.

You are the author of your own destiny

Be fully awake in the sacred moment.

I don't want my kids to be like me. I want them to be better than me.

Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.

You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.

The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique).

I try to act out of faith.

There's a manager (Billy Martin) I could play for.