"Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions."

"For of men it may generally be affirmed that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed they are entirely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their…"

"For of men it may generally be affirmed, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous."

"Men are by nature much more inclined to evil than to good; and therefore, if you would have the good, you must put them under the necessity of being so."

"For the nature of men is such that they are much more bound by the benefits they confer than by those they receive."