"The best fortress is to be found in the love of the people, for although you may have fortresses, they will not save you if you are hated by the people."

"No state is ever well established unless it has a good army."

"God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us."

"For a man who wishes to make a profession of good in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good."

"He who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined; because that power has been effected either by industry or by force, and both of these are suspicious to the one who has been raised to powe…"