--- title: "16 Subjects Quotes By Niccolo Machiavelli" description: "16 Subjects quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli. Plus more from Niccolo Machiavelli and more Subjects sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d7/niccolo-machiavelli-368_accounts_a-prince-ought-to-have-two-fears-one-fro_2324295.jpg" --- > [A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/a-prince-ought-to-have-two-fears-one-from-within-on-account-of-his/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d7/niccolo-machiavelli-368_accounts_a-prince-ought-to-have-two-fears-one-fro_2324295.jpg) > [When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/when-you-disarm-your-subjects-you-offend-them-by-showing-that-either/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4e/niccolo-machiavelli-368_conclusion_when-you-disarm-your-subjects-you-offend_864919.jpg) > [When settling disputes between his subjects, he should ensure that his judgement is irrevocable; and he should be so regarded that no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/when-settling-disputes-between-his-subjects-he-should-ensure-that-his/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bff/niccolo-machiavelli-368_art_when-settling-disputes-between-his-subje_1116744.jpg) > [A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/a-wise-prince-will-seek-means-by-which-his-subjects-will-always-and/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a7/niccolo-machiavelli-368_being-faithful_a-wise-prince-will-seek-means-by-which-h_2386154.jpg) > [For a prince should have two fears: one, internal concerning his subjects; the other, external, concerning foreign powers. From the latter he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/for-a-prince-should-have-two-fears-one-internal-concerning-his/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/269/niccolo-machiavelli-368_fear_for-a-prince-should-have-two-fears-one-i_2343464.jpg) > [It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/it-makes-him-hated-above-all-things-as-i-have-said-to-be-rapacious/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6a/niccolo-machiavelli-368_all-things_it-makes-him-hated-above-all-things-as-i_787286.jpg) > [For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/for-government-consists-in-nothing-else-but-so-controlling-subjects/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f8/niccolo-machiavelli-368_able_for-government-consists-in-nothing-else_2898207.jpg) > [Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/some-princes-so-as-to-hold-securely-the-state-have-disarmed-their/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/670/niccolo-machiavelli-368_accustomed_some-princes-so-as-to-hold-securely-the_1939657.jpg) > [Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/still-a-prince-should-make-himself-feared-in-such-a-way-that-if-he/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/280/niccolo-machiavelli-368_absence_still-a-prince-should-make-himself-feare_2457876.jpg) > [Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/well-used-are-those-cruelties-if-it-is-permitted-to-speak-well-of/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d4/niccolo-machiavelli-368_benefits_well-used-are-those-cruelties-if-it-is-p_1332681.jpg) > [It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/it-makes-him-contemptible-to-be-considered-fickle-frivolous/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0f/niccolo-machiavelli-368_action_it-makes-him-contemptible-to-be-consider_2439917.jpg) > [It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/it-may-be-observed-that-provinces-amid-the-vicissitudes-to-which-they-2/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/726/niccolo-machiavelli-368_affair_it-may-be-observed-that-provinces-amid-t_2650588.jpg) > [Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/therefore-in-order-not-to-have-to-rob-his-subjects-to-be-able-to/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9be/niccolo-machiavelli-368_able_therefore-in-order-not-to-have-to-rob-hi_1000769.jpg) > [Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/conquered-states-that-have-been-accustomed-to-liberty-and-the/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b2/niccolo-machiavelli-368_accustomed_conquered-states-that-have-been-accustom_1296081.jpg) > [Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/therefore-in-order-not-to-have-to-rob-his-subjects-to-be-able-to-2/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/435/niccolo-machiavelli-368_able_therefore-in-order-not-to-have-to-rob-hi_3132832.jpg) > [A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/a-prince-therefore-must-not-mind-incurring-the-charge-of-cruelty-for/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6d/niccolo-machiavelli-368_arise_a-prince-therefore-must-not-mind-incurri_1318285.jpg) ## Other authors on Subjects ## More by Niccolo Machiavelli > [Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/men-generally-decide-upon-a-middle-course-which-is-most-hazardous-for/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) > [Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/because-there-are-three-classes-of-intellects-one-which-comprehends/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) > [It is the duty of a man of honor to teach others the good which he has not been able to do himself because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/it-is-the-duty-of-a-man-of-honor-to-teach-others-the-good-which-he/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) > [“Anyone who believes that new benefits make men of high station forget old injuries deceives himself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/anyone-who-believes-that-new-benefits-make-men-of-high-station-forget/) [Niccolò Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) > [He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/he-who-has-once-begun-to-live-by-rapine-always-finds-reasons-for/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) > [Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/everyone-who-wants-to-know-what-will-happen-ought-to-examine-what-has/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) > [Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/speaking-generally-men-are-ungrateful-fickle-hypocritical-fearful/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) > [There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/there-is-nothing-as-likely-to-succeed-as-what-the-enemy-believes-you/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) > [For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/for-the-great-majority-of-mankind-are-satisfied-with-appearance-as/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) > [That prince is highly esteemed who conveys this impression of himself, and he who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against; for, provided…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/that-prince-is-highly-esteemed-who-conveys-this-impression-of-himself/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) > [“Anyone who studies present and ancient affairs will easily see how in all cities and all peoples there still exist, and have always existed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/anyone-who-studies-present-and-ancient-affairs-will-easily-see-how-in/) [Niccolò Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) > [I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/i-believe-that-it-is-possible-for-one-to-praise-without-concern-any/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) > [Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/men-are-always-averse-to-enterprises-in-which-they-foresee/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) > [“He who causes another to become powerful ruins himself, for he brings such a power into being either by design or by force, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/he-who-causes-another-to-become-powerful-ruins-himself-for-he-brings/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) > [One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niccolo-machiavelli/one-never-finds-anything-perfectly-pure-and-exempt-from-danger/) [Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niccolo-machiavelli/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/subjects/niccolo-machiavelli/#itemlist", "name": "16 Subjects Quotes By 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