There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.

A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

I say, thou mad March hare.

The world wants to be deceived.

Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?