Alina-starkov Quote by Leigh Bardugo

“Those who by valorous ways become princes...acquire a principality with difficulty, but they keep it with ease.”

— W.K. Marriott

When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince.

— Anonymous

“If the privateer you've hired is entirely trustworthy, he's probably not much of a privateer.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“is a very kingly, honourable, and frequent practice, when one prince desires the assistance of another, to secure him against an invasion, that the…

— Jonathan Swift

“Without doubt, princes become great when they overcome difficulties and hurdles put in their path. When fortune wants to advance a new prince... She…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“any rational privateer would have long since scuttled southwards until the weather improved. No prize could be boarded in this. By”

— Julian Stockwin

“Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind from a vain persuasion, that those who have no dependence, except on their favour, will have…

— Edward Gibbon

“Princes should devolve on others those matters that entail responsibility, and reserve to themselves those that relate to grace and favour.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“There are better things than princes.”

— Leigh Bardugo

....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“A Prince, therefore, should have no care or thought but for war, and for the regulations and training it requires, and should apply himself…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“We were not made to please princes.”

— Leigh Bardugo