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Good Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
- Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.
- The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.
- So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to…
- Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.
- A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow…
- Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.
- In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend;…
- God and nature have thrown all human fortunes into the midst of mankind; and they are thus attainable rather by rapine than by industry, by…
- The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go…
- How laudable it is for a prince to keep good faith and live with integrity, and not with astuteness, every one knows. Still the experience…
- Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and when the reasons which made…
- From the latter he is defended by being well armed and having good allies, and if he is well armed he will have good friends,…
- Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.
- A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by…
- One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work…
- The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.
- The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold.
- 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…
- For a prince should have two fears: one, internal concerning his subjects; the other, external, concerning foreign powers. From the latter he can always defend…
- And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I…
- A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore,…
- Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.
- Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have…
- Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed,…
- For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.
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