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There are three kinds of intelligence; one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.


Niccolo Machiavelli

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NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI ... He who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order o...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which apprec...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws ...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times—letting pass infinite ...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Never was anything great achieved without danger.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI CHAPTER VI
Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired By One's Own Arms And Ability
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NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI ... When Princes devote themselves rather to pleasure than to arms, they lose their dominions.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its ...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every o...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuri...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them;...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of succes...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are no...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most e...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changi...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rath...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI …he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation whic...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must ...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling ...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI ... From want of foresight men make changes which relishing well at first do not betray their hidden...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI … to a Prince who wants to do great things, it is necessary to learn to deceive.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it ...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI ... If instead of colonies you send troops, the cost is vastly greater, and the whole revenues of th...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI ... Whoever becomes master of a city accustomed to live in freedom and does no destroy it, may recko...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Verträge bricht man um des Nutzens willen.
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