Accounts Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.

— Woodrow Wilson

In our own days we have seen no princes accomplish great results save those who have been accounted miserly.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Princes should devolve on others those matters that entail responsibility, and reserve to themselves those that relate to grace and favour.”

— 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

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

— Francis Bacon

In respect to foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.

— Edmond de Goncourt

To praise princes for virtues they are lacking in is a way of insulting them with impunity

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.

— Henry Newbolt

“For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.…

— John Calvin

For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.…

— John Calvin

It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to…

— Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford