Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of minds: first those that attain insight and understanding of things by their own means, then those that… — Niccolo 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
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
And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Anyone who believes that new benefits make men of high station forget old injuries deceives himself.” — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
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 Image
Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
