Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes - Page 7

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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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• 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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• Cruelties should be committed all at once.

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

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  Mean, Done, Great Things

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

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

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Benefits

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• I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you have to make a choice, to be feared is much safer than to be loved. For it is a good general rule about men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, fearful of danger and greedy for gain....[love] is a link of obligation which men, because they are rotten, will break anything they think doing so serves their advantage; but fear involves dread of punishment, from which they can never escape.

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  Liars, Love Is, Men

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• Forgiveness proceeds from a generous soul.

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  Inspirational, Soul, Generous

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• How laudable it is for a prince to keep good faith and live with integrity, and not with astuteness, every one knows. Still the experience of our times shows those princes to have done great things who have had little regard for good faith, and have been able by astuteness to confuse men's brains, and who have ultimately overcome those who have made loyalty their foundation.

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  Loyalty, Art, Integrity

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.55, Knickerbocker Classics

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• The prince must be a lion, but he must also know how to play the fox.

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  Play, Lions, Foxes

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• If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.

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  Honesty, Party, Army

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• Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

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  Ignorance, Men, Difficulty

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.34, Race Point Publishing

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• When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.

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  Art, War, Punishment

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

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  Life, Men, Wish

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• For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.

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  Men, Honor, Titles

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 372-75, Dei Discorsi, III. 38, 1922.

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• Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants, and honest men are always poor; nor do any ever escape from servitude but the bold and faithless, or from poverty, but the rapacious and fraudulent.

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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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• I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it; that they may weave its warp, but cannot break it. Yet they should never give up, because there is always hope, though they know not the end and more towards it along roads which cross one another and as yet are unexplored; and since there is hope, they should not despair, no matter what fortune brings or in what travail they find themselves.

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  Art, Giving Up, War

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 2, ch. 29, as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick, 1517.

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• The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

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  Business, Needs, Decision Making

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• I hope and hoping feeds my pain
  I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart
  I laugh but the laughter does not pass within
  I burn but the burning makes no mark outside.

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  Laughter, Pain, Reading

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• To ensure victory the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders.

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  War, Victory, Troops

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• One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high taxes from starting a new business. Rather, the Prince should be ready to reward men who want to do these things and those who endeavour in any way to increase the prosperity of their city or their state.

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  Taken, Men, Cities

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• Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be able to change to the opposite qualities.

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  Religious, Character, Opposites

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.56, Knickerbocker Classics

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• It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock; and he should endeavour to show in his actions greatness, courage, gravity, and fortitude; and in his private dealings with his subjects let him show that his judgments are irrevocable, and maintain himself in such reputation that no one can hope either to deceive him or to get round him.

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  Art, War, Mean

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

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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 distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

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  Love, Children, Crazy

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