Quotes by : Niccolo Machiavelli

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success,....

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

Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.

Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.

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

Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince,....

Politics have no relation to morals.

Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.