Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes About Loss

Quotes about: Loss

• 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

• He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Fall, Ambition, Loss

• And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and manifest reason for it; but above all he must abstain from taking the property of others, for men forget more easily the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, Father, War

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.53, Race Point Publishing

• Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Death, Father, Loss

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.69, FastPencil Inc

• The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Loss

• And above all you ought to guard against leading an army to fight which is afraid or which is not confident of victory. For the greatest sign of an impending loss is when one does not believe one can win.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Believe

• A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Father, Loss, Son

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 462-63, Del. Prin, Chapter XVII, 1922.

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