Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
Home
Quotes
Picture quotes
Random
Facebook Covers
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli
Topics:
Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
Related Quotes
A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of...
Before all else, be armed.
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities...
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand...
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when...
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones,...
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there...
The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one...
When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or...
Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less...
Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it...
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist...
Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
When I came back to Dublin I was court marshaled in my absence and sentenced...
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only...
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it...