Niccolo Machiavelli — Philosophical Quotes

253 quotes · Political Philosopher, Historian

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Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Political Philosopher, Historian

Philosophical

“...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.”

Want Life Fortune

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Political Philosopher, Historian

Philosophical

“Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.”

Needs Law Politics

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Philosophical

“There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.”

Seems Society

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Philosophical

“For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.”

Men Invention

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Philosophical

“And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and manifest reason for it; but above all he must abstain from taking the property of others, for men forget more easily the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.”

Art War Father

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Philosophical

“...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.”

People Nature Fickle

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Philosophical

“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 his own ruin than his preservation.”

Art War Reality

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Philosophical

“Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.”

Men Giving Law

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Philosophical

“For the mob is always impressed by appearances and by results, and the world is composed of the mob.”

World Results Appearance

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Philosophical

“Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force.”

War Enemy Overcoming

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Philosophical

“....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.”

Politics Reputation Unstable

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Philosophical

“Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.”

Way Hands Veils

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