Courage Quote by Niccolò Machiavelli

“Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind from a vain persuasion, that those who have no dependence, except on their favour, will have…

— Edward Gibbon

“If it is bad to debase the innocence of a private individual, whose influence on the affairs of the world is minimal, it is…

— Frederick the Great

“This again results naturally and necessarily from the circumstance that the Prince cannot avoid giving offence to his new subjects, either in respect of…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

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

— Niccolò Machiavelli

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

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“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

“[I]f subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable;”

— David Hume

Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not…

— Niccolo 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

“When unjust laws are duly weighed, The king, too, may be disobeyed. They owed their true prince everything.”

— Pedro Calderón de la Barca

“That I was not long brought up by the concubine of my father; that I preserved the flower of my youth. That I took…

— Marcus Aurelius