Quia - Station F: Florentine Politics

"A prince should have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other things for his study, but war and its organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands."

"Thus, it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed (ready) that when it is merciful to be otherwise, you may be able to change to the opposite qualities."

"In the actions of men, and especially of princes, from which there is no appeal, the end justifies the means."