Niccolo Machiavelli quotes

" When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content. " # Honor

" A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. " # Promises # Reason # Politicians and Politics

" No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. " # Enemies

" It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. " # Fear

" God creates men, but they choose each other. " # Choice

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

" It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. " # Love

" If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. " # Vengeance

" No one should be astonished if in the following discussion of completely new princedoms and of the prince and of government, I bring up the noblest examples. Because, since men almost always walk in the paths beaten by others and carry on their affairs by imitatingeven though it is not possible to keep wholly in the paths of others or to attain the ability of those you imitatea prudent man will always choose to take paths beaten by great men and to imitate those who have been especially admirable, in order that if his ability does not reach theirs, at least it may offer some suggestion of it; and he will act like prudent archers, who, seeing that the mark they plan to hit is too far away and knowing what space can be covered by the power of their bows, take an aim much higher than their mark, not in order to reach with their arrows so great a height, but to be able, with the aid of so high an aim, to attain their purpose. " # Uncategorised # Friends and Friendship # Love

" There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. " # War