Being faithful Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Thus a wise prince will think of ways to keep his citizens of every sort and under every circumstance dependent on the state and…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Therefore, a wise prince must think of a method by which his citizens will need the state and himself at all times and in…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“There are many who think a wise prince ought, when he has the chance, to foment astutely some enmity, so that by suppressing it…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“The first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him; and when…

— Niccolò 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

“But so long as power remains by itself on one side, and enlightenment and wisdom isolated on the other, wise men will rarely think…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

A wise prince then...should never be idle in times of peace but should industriously lay up stores of which to avail himself in times…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“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

“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

Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their…

— Ben Jonson

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