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State Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
- One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high taxes from starting…
- It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state…
- 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;…
- 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…
- Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of…
- And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as…
- 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…
- Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their…
- Thus it happens in matters of state; for knowing afar off (which it is only given a prudent man to do) the evils that are…
- A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and…
- The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good…
- It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they…
- For that reason, let a prince have the credit of conquering and holding his state, the means will always be considered honest, and he will…
- A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and…
More State Quotes
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. — Mahmoud Abbas
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila