Example Quote by Niccolò Machiavelli

A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he…

— Adam Smith

Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“tis the part of a truly prudent man not to be wise beyond his condition, but either to take no notice of what the…

— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Certainly man is a remarkably vain, variable, and elusive subject.10 It is hard to base any constant, uniform judgment upon him.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“Your efforts to instil either vainglory or false modesty into the patient will therefore be met from the Enemy’s side with the obvious reminder…

— C.S. Lewis

“There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this…

— Arthur Helps

“Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him.”

— George R.R. Martin

“A developed and decent man cannot be vain without a boundless exactingness towards himself and without despising himself at moments to the point of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“he wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that…

— Niccolo Machiavelli