Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli

….for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

Character

Greatness

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….it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one’s fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory.

Citizens

Mean

Politics

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….nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one’s own power.

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Reputation

Unstable

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….those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

Ease

Politics

Skills

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

Fortune

Life

Want

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…it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.

Defense

Looks

Valor

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

Fickle

Nature

People

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…the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.

Believe

Incredulity

Mankind

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(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.

Interest

Reason

Should

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A battle that you win cancels all your mistakes.

Mistake

Peace

War

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