Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes About Security

Quotes about: Security

• Where the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no consideration of justice or injustice, humanity or cruelty, nor of glory or of shame, should be allowed to prevail. But putting all other considerations aside, the only question should be: What course will save the life and liberty of the country?

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Country, Peace, Freedom

• Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wisdom, Choices, Able

• Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mean, Vigor, Certain

• The answer is, of course, that it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Two, Together, Would Be

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2002). “The Prince”, Spark Notes

• The prince who relies upon their words, without having otherwise provided for his security, is ruined; for friendships that are won by awards, and not by greatness and nobility of soul, although deserved, yet are not real, and cannot be depended upon in time of adversity.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Time, Real, Adversity

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, 1513.

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