Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes - Page 6

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• When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Successful, Opportunity, Men

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• The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mistake, Men, Wish

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1532.

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• You have to be a prince to understand the people, and you have to belong to the people to understand the princes.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  People

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• One must consider the final result

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Finals, Results, Ends Justify The Means

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.14, Penguin

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• Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Fear, Punishment, Dread

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• Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Plato, Half, Etc

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• Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Enemy, Overcoming

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• It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Weather, Common

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• One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Change, Philosophical, Moving Forward

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• A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.

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  Art, War, Archer

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• It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.

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  Wise, Men, Opinion

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.56, FastPencil Inc

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• When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Happiness, Happy, Men

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

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• So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.

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  War, Evil, Able

  NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI (1947). “THE PRINCE”

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• He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Thieves, Vicious

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• A multitude is strong while it holds together, but so soon as each of those who compose it begins ro think of his own private danger, it becomes weak and contemptible.

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  Strong, Thinking, Together

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• We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mean, Done, Great Things

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.71, Xist Publishing

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• Cruelties should be committed all at once.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Should, Cruelty, Committed

  Gerald Lee Ratliff, Niccolo Machiavelli (1986). “Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince”, p.48, Barron's Educational Series

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• The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again.

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  Art, War, Knowing

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 16, 1517.

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• The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Enemy

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• Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.

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  Men, Decide Upon, Middle

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• The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.

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  War, People, Affection

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

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• Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Opportunity, Literature

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• Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Benefits

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• Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Life, Men, Wish

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• Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Peace, War, Quality

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.73, FastPencil Inc

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