Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian author, statesman, mediator and philosopher. He lived in Florence in the Renaissance duration and was among this period's most important individuals. State Chancellor of the Republican federal government in 1498-1512, when he was deposed and also put behind bars by the Medici that then returned to power. He functioned his means up once more to a central position and impact in Florence.
The year after he appeared of jail, his major work Il Principe (The Royal Prince) (1513) released and later discussions of the very first 10 publications of Titus Livy (1513-21).
Today, perhaps Machiavelli is best known for its therapy of the principle of power. This was taped in the book The Royal prince. Guide is composed as a voice for a future first occur as an useful guide for managers in making use of force - therefore the name - as a philosophical conversation of the concept of power.
Machiavelli's strategy to power is just as pertinent today as in the 1500s, although his ideas on the subject now being criticized by some for being negative. Machiavelli makes it clear that a ruler deserves to make use of all means in the state's rate of interest, yet this calls for an impeccable individual values, and that the state's passions as well as the Royal prince's personal passions should be greatly separated.
The expression "the function validates the methods" is typically attributed to Machiavelli, yet it's not a quote from him, instead one of several possible, as well as perhaps a somewhat severe analysis of his job, The Prince and ignores key elements of his conversation.
He has also composed historical jobs as well as social satirical funnies.
Our collection contains 48 quotes who is written / told by Niccolo, under the main topics: Business - War.
"It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles"
"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver"
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"
"Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds"
"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared"
"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally"
"The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not"
"For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against"
"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage"
"Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear"
"The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present"
"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred"
"We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either"
"A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests"
"A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair"
"A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example"
"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise"
"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him"
"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things"
"There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt"
"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others"
"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless"
"The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes"
"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times"
"Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society"
"One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived"
"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous"
"Politics have no relation to morals"
"The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all"
"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it"
"One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others"
"Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain"
"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution"
"Never was anything great achieved without danger"
"Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot"
"Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others"
"Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared"
"Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked"
"Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions"
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both"
"It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope"
"It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved"
"Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better"
"Before all else, be armed"
"I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it"
"Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed"
"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil"
"God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us"
