Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes, True Friend Quotes

A prince is also respected when he is a true friend and a true enemy; that is, when he declares himself on the side of one prince against another without any reservation.

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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.

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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

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Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them.

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Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

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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.

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The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.

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It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.

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You have to be a prince to understand the people, and you have to belong to the people to understand the princes.

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Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

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Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the goods of others, whereas causes for taking life are rarer and more quickly destroyed.

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The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.

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A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules, and it is of such force that it not only upholds those who are born princes, but it often enables men to rise from a private station to that rank. And, on the contrary, it is seen that when princes have thought more of ease than of arms they have lost their states. And the first cause of your losing it is to neglect this art; and what enables you to acquire a state is to be master of the art.

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For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying

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When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.

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He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

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Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.

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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

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To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.

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Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

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