Quotes by : Niccolò Machiavelli

For no man is found so prudent as to know how to adapt himself to these changes, both because he cannot....

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

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

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo I want to overthrow it.

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

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline;....

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.....

Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is....

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....