Niccolò Machiavelli Quotes

• It never or rarely happens that a republic or monarchy is well constituted, or its old institutions entirely reformed, unless it is only done by one individual.

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• Men are driven by two two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

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• Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

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• Never was anything great achieved without danger.

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• The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

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• The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

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  Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

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• The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

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• War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

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• There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

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• A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

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• There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

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• Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

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• Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

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• When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.

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• War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

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• Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about.

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• In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sa.

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• For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.

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• It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

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Niccolò Machiavelli (74)

Birth:	3rd May, 1469
Death:	21st June, 1527
Nationality:	Italian
Profession:	Diplomat, Historian, Philosopher, Politician

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