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Firsts Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
- The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a…
- A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for…
- You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of…
- Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never…
- 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.…
- Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by…
- Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke, done out of…
- Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can…
- States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first…
- The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
- There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself…
- A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence…
- Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
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