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Nicolo Machiavelli Quotes


An Italian philosopher, humanist, and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance.
Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian philosopher, humanist, and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. He is one of the main founders of modern political science. He was a diplomat, political philosopher, playwright, and a civil servant of the Florentine Republic. He also wrote comedies, carnival songs, poetry, and some of the most well-known personal correspondence in the Italian language. His position in the regime of Florence as Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence lasted from 1498 to 1512, the period in which the de' Medici were not in power. The period when most of his well-known writing was done was after this, when they recovered power, and Machiavelli was removed from all functions.

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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

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Government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to nor have cause to do it harm.

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It is better to be bold than too circumspect because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.

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For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances as though they were realities. and are often more influenced by things that seem than by those that are.

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Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But this must happen in such a way that no one becomes aware of it; or if it should be noticed excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.

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Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.

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There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself the other appreciates what others can understand the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first is excellent the second good and the third useless.

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Rhis is to be asserted in general of men: that they are ungrateful fickle false cowardly covetous and as long as you succeed are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood property life and children...when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they will turn against you.

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It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new one.