Machiavelli Quotes

These opportunities, then, gave these men the chance they needed, and their great abilities made the...

When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweat...

Those who believe that where great personages are concerned new favors cause old injuries to be forg...

Without an opportunity, their abilities would have been wasted, and without their abilities, the opp...

From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the revers...

..it happens in all human affairs that we never seek to escape one mischief without falling into ano...

Injuries, therefore, should be inflicted all at once, that their ill savour being less lasting may t...

Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and...