Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes - Page 11

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• With difficulty he is beaten who can estimate his own forces and those of his enemy.

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  Enemy, Force, Difficulty

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• In our own days we have seen no princes accomplish great results save those who have been accounted miserly.

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  Results, Accomplish, Has Beens

  Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Moore (2010). “Machiavelli, More & Luther”, p.55, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Thus it happens in matters of state; for knowing afar off (which it is only given a prudent man to do) the evils that are brewing, they are easily cured. But when, for want of such knowledge, they are allowed to grow so that everyone can recognize them, there is no longer any remedy to be found.

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  Men, Knowing, Evil

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• Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

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  Giving, Political, Benefits

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• ....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

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  Character, Greatness, Politics

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.93, Penguin

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• A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for, with a very few examples, he will be more merciful than those who, from excess of tenderness, allow disorders to arise, from whence spring murders and rapine; for these as a rule injure the whole community, while the executions carried out by the prince injure only one individual. And of all princes, it is impossible for a new prince to escape the name of cruel, new states being always full of dangers.

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  Art, Spring, War

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, ch. 17, as translated by Luigi Ricci (1903), 1513.

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• Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies.

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  Diversity, Democracy, Republic

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• There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things..... Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans, while the others defend him sluggishly so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable.

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  Leadership, Party, Passion

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• The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go away, they are only postponed to someone else's advantage. Therefore, they made war with Philip and Antiochus in Greece, in order not to have to fight them in Italy... They never went by that saying which you constantly hear from the wiseacres of our day, that time heals all things. They trusted rather their own character and prudence- knowing perfectly well that time contains the seeds of all things, good as well as bad.

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  Art, War, Character

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, ch. 3, 1513.

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• For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part of the people.

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  Law, People, Support

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• Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to be forced to become rapacious, a prince must consider it of little importance if he incurs the name of miser, for this is one of the vices that permits him to rule.

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  Order, Vices, Littles

  "The Portable Machiavelli".

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• Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.

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  Men, Self, Doe

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• Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

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  Men, Justice, Observation

  "World Politics: Trend and Transformation, 2013 - 2014 Update Edition". Book by Charles Kegley, p. 494, January 3, 2013.

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• Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

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  Literature, Prophet, Unarmed

  "The Prince".

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• Delusion gives you more happiness than truth gives to me. For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer.

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  Giving, Done, Benefits

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• God and nature have thrown all human fortunes into the midst of mankind; and they are thus attainable rather by rapine than by industry, by wicked actions rather than by good. Hence it is that men feed upon each other, and those who cannot defend themselves must be worried.

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  Art, War, Men

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2018). “History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy”, p.115, Ozymandias Press

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• God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

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  God, Philosophical, Art Of War

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.106, FastPencil Inc

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• Where the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no consideration of justice or injustice, humanity or cruelty, nor of glory or of shame, should be allowed to prevail. But putting all other considerations aside, the only question should be: What course will save the life and liberty of the country?

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  Country, Peace, Freedom

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• Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

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  Simple, Men, Yield

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• The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.

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  Art, War, Loss

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• A prince is also respected when he is a true friend and a true enemy; that is, when he declares himself on the side of one prince against another without any reservation.

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  True Friend, Enemy

  "The Portable Machiavelli".

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• From the latter he is defended by being well armed and having good allies, and if he is well armed he will have good friends, and affairs will always remain quiet within when they are quiet without, unless they should have been already disturbed by conspiracy; and even should affairs outside be disturbed, if he has carried out his preparations and has lived as I have said, as long as he does not despair, he will resist every attack.

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  Art, War, Good Friend

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.76, FastPencil Inc

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• Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.

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  Benefits, May, Littles

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.30, Race Point Publishing

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• And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of a few, whom he can curb with ease in many ways.

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  Art, War, Ambition

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.80, Xist Publishing

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• There are three kinds of minds: first those that attain insight and understanding of things by their own means, then those that recognize what is right when others explain it to them, and finally those that are capable of neither one nor the other.

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  Mean, Understanding, Mind

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