Best Machiavelli inspiring image Quotes and excerpts from his the prince book
Best Machiavelli inspiring image Quotes of the prince book
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe [il ˈprintʃipe]) is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. ... It even contributed to the modern negative connotations of the words "politics" and "politician" in western countries.
Virtue. Machiavelli defines virtues as qualities that are praised by others, such as generosity, compassion, and piety. He argues that a prince should always try to appear virtuous, but that acting virtuously for virtue's sake can prove detrimental to the principality.
Italian diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli is best known for writing The Prince, a handbook for unscrupulous politicians that inspired the term "Machiavellian" and established its author as the "father of modern political theory.
Machiavelli was a free thinker, he was not a bad person nor good, he rebelled against the religious systems. In his book,. you can call his works "beyond good and evil".It is politics, where goals justify means. and none can be trusted.
“From this one can derive a general rule which rarely, if ever, fails: that anyone who is the cause of another becoming powerful comes to ruin himself; because that power has been brought about by him either through cunning or by force; and both of these two qualities are suspect to the one who has become powerful.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experiences what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must, therefore, be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.”
― Machiavelli Niccolo, The Prince
― Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince
“above all things, he must keep his hands off the property of others because men more quickly forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony. Besides,”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“he who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined because that predominance has been brought about either by astuteness or else by force, and both are distrusted by him who has been raised to power.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“Injuries, therefore, should be inflicted all at once, that their ill savour being less lasting may the less offend; whereas, benefits should be conferred little by little, that so they may be more fully relished.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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Top Machiavelli 36 image Quotes the prince
Top Machiavelli 36 image Quotes the prince
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“It is necessary’, he writes, for a prince to learn ‘how not to be good’ (Ch. XV). Machiavelli’s wording on this matter is extremely precise: a man who wants ‘to profess goodness at all times’ will inevitably fail because he is surrounded by many unscrupulous men. Hence, ‘it is necessary for a prince who wishes to maintain himself to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge or not to use it according to necessity"
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“... When Princes devote themselves rather to pleasure than to arms, they lose their dominions.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“There is a general note to be noted here: People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge, but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone else, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“I certainly think that it is better to be impetuous than cautious, for fortune is a woman, and it is necessary, if you wish to master her, to conquer her by force; and it can be seen that she let's herself be overcome by these rather than by those who proceed coldly. And therefore, like a woman, she is a friend to the young, because they are less cautious, fiercer, and master her with greater audacity”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“I say, then, that hereditary States, accustomed to the family of their Prince, are maintained with far less difficulty than new States, since all that is required is that the Prince shall not depart from the usages of his ancestors, trusting for the rest to deal with events as they arise.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“that men, thinking to better their condition, are always ready to change masters, and in this expectation will take up arms against any ruler; wherein they deceive themselves, and find afterwards by experience that they are worse off than before.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“the prince who relies entirely on fortune is lost when it changes. I believe also that he will be successful who directs his actions according to the spirit of the times, and that he whose actions do not accord with the times will not be successful. Because men are seen, in affairs that lead to the end which every man has before him, namely, glory and riches, to get there by various methods; one with caution, another with haste; one by force, another by skill; one by patience, another by its opposite; and each one succeeds in reaching the goal by a different method. One”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“A general rule is drawn which never or rarely fails: that he who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined; because that predominancy has been brought about either by astuteness or else by force, and both are distrusted by him who has been raised to power.”
― W.K. Marriott, The Prince
“... If instead of colonies you send troops, the cost is vastly greater, and the whole revenues of the country are spent in guarding it so that the gain becomes a loss, and much deeper offence is given since in shifting the quarters of your soldiers from place to place the whole country suffers hardship, which as all feel, all are made enemies and enemies who remaining, although vanquished, in their own homes, have the power to hurt. In every way, therefore, this mode of defence is as disadvantageous as that by colonizing is useful.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli,
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