Niccolò Machiavelli Quotes

“injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

topic:time hurting

“The Switzers are completely armed and quite free.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

topic:freedom

“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

topic:God

“Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a...”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

topic:fear

“a prince should guard himself, above all things, against being despised and hated; and liberality leads you to both.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

topic:power hate

“Yet it cannot be called talent to slay fellow-citizens, to deceive friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; such methods may gain empire, but not glory.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

topic:power violence

“Thus it will always happen that he who is not your friend will demand your neutrality, whilst he who is your friend will entreat you to declare yourself with arms.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

topic:friendship war

“It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for fighting must learn how to govern by the arts of peace.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

topic:wisdom war peace

“And the first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him; and when they are capable and faithful he may always be considered wise, because he has known how to recognize the capable and...”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

topic:wisdom

“Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be—and are ruined.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

topic:reality

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