Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it...

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Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the...

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For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of...

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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones,...

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States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born...

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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver...

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Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach...

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If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe...

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I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

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Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets...

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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

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

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