For Time, driving all things before it, may bring with it evil as well as good. - Niccolò Machiavelli

So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things, because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

For on Cardinal Rohan saying to me that the Italians did not understand war, I replied that the French did not understand politics.