King Quote by Niccolò Machiavelli

“He [the prince] holds to what is right when he can but knows how to do wrong when he must.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“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

“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

“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

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

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“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“A Prince, therefore, should have no care or thought but for war, and for the regulations and training it requires, and should apply himself…

— Niccolò Machiavelli