Accounts Quote by 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

Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate avoids hatred;…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Returning to the question of being feared or loved, I conclude that since men love at their own will and fear at the will…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Being feared and not hated go well together, and the prince can always do this if he does not touch the property or the…

— Niccolò 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

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

“The familial rupture led to Prince becoming a person who cannot trust others, and must be in dictatorial control of everything around him, Leeds…

— Touré

It is much safer for the prince to be feared than loved, but he ought to avoid making himself hated.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.

— George Savile

“Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed…

— Niccolò 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

“A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study, but war and its order…

— Nancy Goldstone