"Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling."

"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."

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

"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."

"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…"