Machiavel Quotes
- Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks it impossible for… — Algernon Sidney
- Every Country hath its Machiavel. — Thomas Browne
- I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more… — William Shakespeare
- We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. — Francis Bacon