For one change always leaves a dovetail into which another will fit.
Niccolò MachiavelliThus it is well to seem merciful faithful humane religious and upright and also to be so but the mind should remain so balanced that were it needful not to be so you should be able and know how to change to the contrary.
Niccolò MachiavelliTags: sovereignty princedom
And although one should not reason about Moses, as he was a mere executor of things that had been ordered for him by God, nonetheless he should be admired if only for that grace which made him deserving of speaking with God.
Niccolò MachiavelliIt is safer to be feared than loved
Niccolò MachiavelliFor 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.
Niccolò MachiavelliFor on Cardinal Rohan saying to me that the Italians did not understand war, I replied that the French did not understand politics.
Niccolò Machiavelli...the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.
Niccolò MachiavelliAnd in examining their life and deeds it will be seen that they owed nothing to fortune but the opportunity which gave them matter to be shaped into the form that they thought fit; and without that opportunity their powers would have been wasted, and without their powers the opportunity would have come in vain.
Niccolò MachiavelliHalf of these aren't even Machiavelli.
Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Niccolò MachiavelliTags: philosophy
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