Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes & Quotations

Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

» Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

» Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

» Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

» One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

» It should be noted that when he seizes a state the new ruler ought to determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He should inflict them once and for all, and not have to renew them every day.

» It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

» The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

» Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

» Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

» Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.

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