72 Quotations by Niccolo Machiavelli
- 1. A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would l ...
- 2. A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
- 3. A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study bu ...
- 4. A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most e ...
- 5. A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His ...
- 6. A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however mu ...
- 7. Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satis ...
- 8. Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
- 9. God creates men, but they choose each other.
- 10. God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which ...
- 11. Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
- 12. Hatred may be engendered by good deeds as well as bad ones.
- 13. He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereaf ...
- 14. He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but ...
- 15. Here arises the question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or feared than loved. Obviou ...
- 16. I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressi ...
- 17. If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
- 18. Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make the ...
- 19. It is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defen ...
- 20. It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.
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