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Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes


An Italian philosopher, humanist, and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance.
Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian philosopher, humanist, and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. He is one of the main founders of modern political science. He was a diplomat, political philosopher, playwright, and a civil servant of the Florentine Republic. He also wrote comedies, carnival songs, poetry, and some of the most well-known personal correspondence in the Italian language. His position in the regime of Florence as Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence lasted from 1498 to 1512, the period in which the de' Medici were not in power. The period when most of his well-known writing was done was after this, when they recovered power, and Machiavelli was removed from all functions.

Here are some famous quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli.

Politics have no relation to morals.

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Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

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Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.

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One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

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Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

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

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Benefits should be granted little by little so that they may be better enjoyed.

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Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

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Only those means of security are good are certain are lasting that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

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Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed or exempt from danger.

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Men hesitate less to injure a man who makes himself loved than to injure one who makes himself feared for their love is held by a chain of obligation which because of men's wickedness is broken on every occasion for the sake of selfish profit; but their fear is secured by a dread of punishment.