Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince.
It is not a mark of manhood to carelessly use the name of the Almighty or of His Beloved Son in a vain and flippant way, as many are prone to do.
To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.