The Romans, in order to hold Capua, Alba, and Ostia, did not destroy them, but gave them their own laws and left them free, and they did not hold them without difficulty.
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"For the nature of men is such that they are much more bound by the benefits they confer than by those they receive."
"The promises of men are not to be relied on, unless they are made under such circumstances that the promiser cannot break them without ruin."
"Hence it is to be remarked that, in seizing a state, the usurper ought to arrange to commit all his cruelties at once, so as not to have to repeat them every day, and thus able to secure men without f…"
"A prince must have no other object, no other thought, nor take anything else for his art, but war and its orders and discipline."
"For of men it may generally be affirmed, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous."
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