72 Quotations by Niccolo Machiavelli
- 21. It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
- 22. It is the nature of men to be as much bound by the benefits that they confer as by those they receiv ...
- 23. It should be noted that when he seizes a state the new ruler ought to determine all the injuries tha ...
- 24. Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the ...
- 25. Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.
- 26. Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
- 27. Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see ...
- 28. Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every o ...
- 29. Men love according to their own will, and fear according to the will of the prince. A wise prince sh ...
- 30. Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even t ...
- 31. Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengea ...
- 32. Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
- 33. Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
- 34. Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.
- 35. Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
- 36. One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
- 37. One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves.
- 38. One never finds anything perfectly pure and... exempt from danger.
- 39. Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your ow ...
- 40. People are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep the ...
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