Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes About Revenge

Quotes about: Revenge

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

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge, Men, Hustle

• People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge, Badass, Bad Ass

• I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge, Men, Expression

• 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

• But in Republics there is a stronger vitality, a fiercer hatred, a keener thirst for revenge. The memory of their former freedom will not let them rest; so that the safest course is either to destroy them, or to go and live in them.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Memories, Revenge, Hatred

  Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Moore (2010). “Machiavelli, More & Luther”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

• Any harm you do to a man should be done in such a way that you need not fear his revenge.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge, Men, Needs

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