Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.”

“It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.”

“Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.”

“Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.”

“To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.”

“Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.”

“Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.”

“The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.”

“The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.”

“War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.”