A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised. . . . Good advice depends on the shrewdness of the… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
For a prince should have two fears: one, internal concerning his subjects; the other, external, concerning foreign powers. From the latter he… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A prince need trouble little about conspiracies when the people are well disposed, but when they are hostile and hold him in… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a hypocrite and dissembler.… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“There are many who think a wise prince ought, when he has the chance, to foment astutely some enmity, so that by… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“For since a Prince by birth has fewer occasions and less need to give offence, he ought to be better loved, and… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“When everyone feels free to tell you the truth, respect for you dwindles… A wise prince should take another course: choose wise… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“A prince is also esteemed when he shows himself a true friend or a true enemy, that is, when, without reservation, he… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“But in new Princedoms difficulties abound. And, first, if the Princedom be not wholly new, but joined on to the ancient dominions… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“If a prince wants to keep up a reputation for being generous, Machiavelli remarks: it is necessary for him not to neglect… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
For that reason, let a prince have the credit of conquering and holding his state, the means will always be considered honest,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“In The Prince Machiavelli mounts two distinct lines of intellectual and political attack, one against the baseness of Medicean statecraft, the other… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“It is necessary’, he writes, for a prince to learn ‘how not to be good’ (Ch. XV). Machiavelli’s wording on this matter… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“For he who quells disorder by a very few signal examples will in the end be more merciful than he who from… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Being feared and not hated go well together, and the prince can always do this if he does not touch the property… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“I say, then, that hereditary States, accustomed to the family of their Prince, are maintained with far less difficulty than new States,… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Just as artists who draw landscapes get down in the valley to study the mountains and go up to the mountains to… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Therefore, a wise prince must think of a method by which his citizens will need the state and himself at all times… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“A Prince, therefore, should have no care or thought but for war, and for the regulations and training it requires, and should… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Without doubt, princes become great when they overcome difficulties and hurdles put in their path. When fortune wants to advance a new… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“you must know that there are two modes of fighting: one in accordance with the laws, the other with force. The first… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“The first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him;… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) was an Italian political philosopher, musician, poet, and romantic comedic… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share
It is the duty of a man of honor to teach others the good which he has not been able to do himself because… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share
“Anyone who believes that new benefits make men of high station forget old injuries deceives himself.” — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share
He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share
Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share
There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share
That prince is highly esteemed who conveys this impression of himself, and he who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against; for, provided… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share
“Anyone who studies present and ancient affairs will easily see how in all cities and all peoples there still exist, and have always existed,… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share
I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share
Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share
“He who causes another to become powerful ruins himself, for he brings such a power into being either by design or by force, and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share
