Property Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli

9 Property quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli

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Machiavelli’s political shrewdness translates into a terse set of thoughts on ownership, each line hinting at power dynamics and pragmatic counsel without the weight of a full treatise.

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It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property…

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So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

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

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Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate…

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One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and…

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And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with…

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And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and…

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Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason…

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One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit;…

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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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Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends…

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It is the duty of a man of honor to teach others the good which he has not been able to do himself because…

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“Anyone who believes that new benefits make men of high station forget old injuries deceives himself.”

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He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.

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Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas…

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

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There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.

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For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that…

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That prince is highly esteemed who conveys this impression of himself, and he who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against; for, provided…

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“Anyone who studies present and ancient affairs will easily see how in all cities and all peoples there still exist, and have always existed,…

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I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for…

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

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“He who causes another to become powerful ruins himself, for he brings such a power into being either by design or by force, and…

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One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.

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