72 Quotations by Niccolo Machiavelli
- 41. Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
- 42. Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of t ...
- 43. Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be ...
- 44. States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, can ...
- 45. States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, can ...
- 46. Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
- 47. The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a ...
- 48. The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so ...
- 49. The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
- 50. The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws ...
- 51. The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise the one whose policy clashes with ...
- 52. The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
- 53. The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this ...
- 54. There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates wh ...
- 55. There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates ...
- 56. There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
- 57. There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others.
- 58. There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they ...
- 59. There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than ...
- 60. There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.
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