A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.

Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.