In terra di ciechi chi vi ha un occhio è signore. - Niccolò Machiavelli

Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries; of more serious ones they cannot, therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.

And although one should not reason about Moses, as he was a mere executor of things that had been ordered for him by God, nonetheless he should be admired if only for that grace which made him deserving of speaking with God.

resemblance between Fortune and women and concludes that it is the bold rather than the cautious man that will win and hold them both.