When Neither Their Property Nor Their Honor

Everyone Sees What You Appear To Be, Few Experience What You Really Are.

....nothing Is So Unhealthy Or Unstable As The Reputation For Power That Is Not Based On One's Own Power.

You Must Know, Then, That There Are Two Methods Of Fighting, The One By Law, The Other By Force: The First Method Is That Of Men, The Second Of Beasts; But As The First Method Is Often Insufficient, One Must Have Recourse To The Second.

The Ends Justifies The Means.

It Is A Common Failing Of Man Not To Take Account Of Tempests During Fair Weather.