Affection Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli Download Open image “The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.” — Niccolo Machiavelli ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affection Fortresses Love People War
Therefore the best fortress is to be found in the love of the people, for although you may have fortresses they will not save… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A prince is also respected when he is a true friend and a true enemy; that is, when he declares himself on the side… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“A prince is also esteemed when he shows himself a true friend or a true enemy, that is, when, without reservation, he takes his… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“One of the best and most efficacious methods for dealing with such a State, is for the Prince who acquires it to go and… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
It is the duty of a man of honor to teach others the good which he has not been able to do himself because… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Anyone who believes that new benefits make men of high station forget old injuries deceives himself.” — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
That prince is highly esteemed who conveys this impression of himself, and he who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against; for, provided… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Anyone who studies present and ancient affairs will easily see how in all cities and all peoples there still exist, and have always existed,… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with diffiulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need… — Lorii Myers Copy Share Image
“It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.” — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot… — David Axelrod Copy Share Image
The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
