Quote by Niccolò Machiavelli

“It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“A prince, therefore, ought always to take counsel, but only when he wishes and not when others wish; he ought rather to discourage every…

— 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

“When the Prince comes into your life, you will stop thinking and start reasoning.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“For how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“And a young prince must be prudent like that, giving freely while his father lives so that afterwards, in age when fighting starts steadfast…

— Seamus Heaney

“[The prince] dare not let ethics keep him from doing whatever evil must be done to preserve himself and the state.”

— Jacques Barzun

“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

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

“And you have to understand this, that a prince, especially a new one, cannot observe all those things for which men are esteemed, being…

— Machiavelli Nicolo Machiavelli

“you must know that there are two modes of fighting: one in accordance with the laws, the other with force. The first is proper…

— 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