We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.