"He who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined."

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

"A man who is used to acting with caution, when circumstances require him to act with impetuosity, cannot change his nature."

"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…"

"He who conquers a province in a foreign country, and does not establish his residence there, is in great danger of losing it."