Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes - Page 8

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• it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Opportunity, Love Is, Men

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.68, FastPencil Inc

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• A wise prince then...should never be idle in times of peace but should industriously lay up stores of which to avail himself in times of adversity so that when fortune abandons him he may be prepared to resist her blows.

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  Wise, Adversity, Blow

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• Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wise, Past, Men

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• To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Opportunity

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• The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  World, Fortune, Good Fortune

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• Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Government, Elements, Literature

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• The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Men

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• One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Peace, War, Order

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• He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Advancement, Waste, Ruins

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• And above all you ought to guard against leading an army to fight which is afraid or which is not confident of victory. For the greatest sign of an impending loss is when one does not believe one can win.

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  Art, War, Believe

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• A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Greatness, Men, Doe

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.18, Race Point Publishing

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• Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

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  Men, Ungrateful, Fickle

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• There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Brain, Three, Kind

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.73, Race Point Publishing

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• War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

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  War, Philosophical, Arms

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• Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

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  Love, Philosophical, Men

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• A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways. The first is to ruin them; the second, for the conqueror to go and reside there in person; and the third is to allow them to continue to live under their own laws, subject to a regular tribute, and to create in them a government of a few, who will keep the country friendly to the conqueror

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  Country, War, Government

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• A prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised. . . . Good advice depends on the shrewdness of the prince who seeks it, and not the shrewdness of the prince on good advice.

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  Wise, Advice, Shrewdness

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• For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying

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  Way, Destroying

  Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Moore (2010). “Machiavelli, More & Luther”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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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.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Laughter, Pain, Reading

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• Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished.
  [It., Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati vincero, e li disarmati rovinarono.]

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Prophet, Unarmed

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• Men ought either to be well treated, or crushed.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Crushed, Wells

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.7, FastPencil Inc

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• The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

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  Business, Doe, Literature

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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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• A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Two

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

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