Therefore It Is Unnecessary For A Prince

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

Never Do Your Enemy A Minor Injury.

But In Republics There Is A Stronger Vitality, A Fiercer Hatred, A Keener Thirst For Revenge. The Memory Of Their Former Freedom Will Not Let Them Rest; So That The Safest Course Is Either To Destroy Them, Or To Go And Live In Them.

When Every Province Of The World So Teems With Inhabitants That They Can Neither Subsist Where They Are Nor Remove Themselves Elsewhere.

One Arises From A Low To A High Station More Often By Using Fraud Instead Of Force.