Die ganze Welt ist voll von Pöbel, und die wenigen Klügern kommen nur zu Worte, wenn es dem großen Haufen, der in sich selbst keine Kraft hat, an einer Stütze fehlt.
For that reason, let a prince have the credit of conquering and holding his state, the means will always be considered honest, and he will be praised by everybody; because the vulgar are always taken by what a thing seems to be and by what comes of it; and in the world there are only the vulgar, for the few find a place there only when the many have no ground to rest on.