Quotes by : Niccolò Machiavelli

... From want of foresight men make changes which relishing well at first do not betray their hidden....

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you....

People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge;....

Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must....

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

... War is the sole art looked for in one who rules...

... On the whole, the best fortress you can have, is in not being hated by your subjects. If they hate....

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

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His....

... If instead of colonies you send troops, the cost is vastly greater, and the whole revenues of the....