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Own Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
- We must distinguish between those who depend on others, that is between those who to achieve their purposes can force the issue and those who…
- Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.
- The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.
- 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…
- If someone puts up the argument that King Louis gave the Romagna to Pope Alexander, and the kingdom of Naples to Spain, in order to…
- Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed…
- Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in a temperate manner…
- Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.
- You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and…
- 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.…
- Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain…
- ....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.
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