Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes About Injury

Quotes about: Injury

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

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge, Men, Needs

• Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Men, Political

• Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge, Men, Hustle

• Never do your enemy a minor injury.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Enemy, Injury, Minors

• Never do an enemy a small injury.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Military, Bad Ass, Enemy

• Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge, Men, Doe

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.25, Xist Publishing

• For it must be noted, that men must either be caressed or else annihilated; they will revenge themselves for small injuries, but cannot do so for great ones; the injury therefore that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge, Men, Needs

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.9, Knickerbocker Classics

• Delusion gives you more happiness than truth gives to me. For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Giving, Done, Benefits

• The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Business, Needs, Decision Making

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