"It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are bad, and that they will use their malignity of mind whenever they have a free opportunity to do so."

"It is always necessary to take the lesser evil as good."

"It is better to be a good prophet than a good poet."

"To conquer a people, and then not to live among them, is to lose them."

"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."