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How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.


Niccolò Machiavelli

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NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which g...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI No one should therefore fear that he cannot accomplish what others have accomplished, for, men are b...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need go...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI I shall always esteem it not much to live in a city where the laws do less than men, because that fa...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Ability and perseverance are the weapons of weakness.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfie...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Make no small plans for they have not the power to stir men’s blood.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to ha...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them onc...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in such a way that it doe...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Never was anything great achieved without danger
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Wise men say, and not without reason, that whoever wished to foresee the future might consult the pa...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI A prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been out...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if th...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would l...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gi...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI A prince must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the ...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI The ends justifies the means
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine au...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in real...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those d...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victi...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI A son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive ...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which ...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregar...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI May princes know then that they begin to lose (their) state at that hour in which they begin to brea...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of fa...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy o...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your ow...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law ...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of t...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either throu...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
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