Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes About Reputation

Quotes about: Reputation

• It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock; and he should endeavour to show in his actions greatness, courage, gravity, and fortitude; and in his private dealings with his subjects let him show that his judgments are irrevocable, and maintain himself in such reputation that no one can hope either to deceive him or to get round him.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Mean

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

• A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Vices, Needs, Prudent

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.90, Penguin

• ....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Politics, Reputation, Unstable

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.87, Penguin

• Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to be forced to become rapacious, a prince must consider it of little importance if he incurs the name of miser, for this is one of the vices that permits him to rule.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Order, Vices, Littles

  "The Portable Machiavelli".

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