Famous Quotes / Niccolo Machiavelli
72 Quotations by Niccolo Machiavelli
- 61. To be feared is much safer then to be loved.
- 62. To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the pri ...
- 63. Truly, man is a spectacularly vain, diverse, and fluctuating subject. It is hard to establish a spec ...
- 64. War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.
- 65. War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he ...
- 66. War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which g ...
- 67. We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the re ...
- 68. When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.
- 69. Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
- 70. Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be rui ...
- 71. Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ...
- 72. Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.