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Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
«God creates men, but they choose each other.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
«When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Cowardice,
Faith
| Keywords:
conclusion, cowardliness, distrust, Hate You, induce, offend, showing, subjects
«Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Imagination,
Living,
Reality
| Keywords:
abandons, bring about, done for, How We Live, imagined, in reality, principalities, principality, removed, republics
«A son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair»
«I shall always esteem it not much to live in a city where the laws do less than men, because that fatherland is desirable where possessions and friends can be securely enjoyed, not where they can be easily taken from you, and friends for few of thems»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Admiration
| Keywords:
desirable, enjoyed, fatherland, Fatherlands, Friends for, possessions, securely, taking possession
«Wise men say, and not without reason, that whoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
«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.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| Keywords:
commits, conquers, demolish, demolished, demolishes, demolishing, ruined, town