Power Should Be A Check On Power.

Never Create By Law What Can Be Accomplished By Morality.

When A Government Is Arrived To That Degree Of Corruption As To Be Incapable Of Reforming Itself, It Would Not Lose Much By Being New Moulded.

[the Pope] Will Make The King Believe That Three Are Only One, That The Bread He Eats Is Not Bread... And A Thousand Other Things Of The Same Kind.

A Prince Who Loves And Fears Religion Is A Lion Who Stoops To The Hand That Strokes Or To The Voice That Appeases Him. He Who Fears And Hates Religion Is Like The Savage Beast That Growls And Bites The Chain, Which Prevents His Flying On The Passenger. He Who Has No Religion At All Is That Terrible Animal Who Perceives His Liberty Only When He Tears In Pieces, And When He Devours.

Mediocrity Is A Hand-rail.