Bad reputation Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him,…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

For a prince should have two fears: one, internal concerning his subjects; the other, external, concerning foreign powers. From the latter he can always…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on…

— Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

“And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline;…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

— Philip Massinger

A prince need trouble little about conspiracies when the people are well disposed, but when they are hostile and hold him in hatred, then…

— Niccolo Machiavelli