Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes About Property

Quotes about: Property

• One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit; while you treat them well, they are yours. They would shed their blood for you, risk their property, their lives, their children, so long, as I said above, as danger is remote; but when you are in danger they turn against you.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Children, Liars, Men

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, www.cnn.com. 1532.

• When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Happiness, Happy, Men

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.80, Xist Publishing

• 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

• One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Son, Men

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.93, Penguin

• It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Said

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.80, Xist Publishing

• Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the goods of others, whereas causes for taking life are rarer and more quickly destroyed.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Causes

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, ch. 17, 1513.

• And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of a few, whom he can curb with ease in many ways.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Ambition

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.80, Xist Publishing

• Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate avoids hatred; for fear and the absence of hatred may well go together, and will be always attained by one who abstains from interfering with the property of his citizens and subjects or with their women.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Hatred

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, ch. 17, 1513.

• So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Long, Honor

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin