Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 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

• There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Intelligent, Appreciate, Intelligence

• He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Crazy, War, Wish

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.169, Race Point Publishing

• A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Father, Son, Loss

• It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Deceit, Literature

• One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Liars, Lying, Philosophical

  "The Prince".

• It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Law, Evil

  Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy bk. 1, ch. 3 (written 1513 - 1517) (translation by Allan Gilbert)

• Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Hate, Philosophical, Evil

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.61, Race Point Publishing

• 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

• Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love, Philosophical, Men

• The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Law, Foundation, Literature

• No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Business, War, Philosophical

  "The Art of War" by Niccolo Machiavelli, Book 7, as translated by Neal Wood (1965), 1520.

• Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Opportunity, Literature

• The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Past, Keeping Promises, Broken

  "At 500, Machiavelli's 'Prince' Still Inspires Love And Fear" by Sylvia Poggioli, www.npr.org. May 27, 2013.

• It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Men, Honor

• Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Government, Elements, Literature

• To know well the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to know well the nature of princes one must be of the people.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  People, Literature

  "The Portable Machiavelli".

• Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Fickle, Literature, May

• The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mistake, Men, Wish

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1532.

• Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Literature, Prophet, Unarmed

  "The Prince".

• Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Nature, Teaching, Ambition

• The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Business, Doe, Literature

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

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wise, Philosophical, Reality

• Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Benefits

• We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Umpires, Literature

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.28, Knickerbocker Classics

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