Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer of the Renaissance period. He has often been called the father of modern political science.
here are some of his quotes
- Men will sooner forget the slaying of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
2.Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.
- Merciful, faithful, humane, upright, and religious.
There is nothing more necessary to appear to have than this last quality, inasmuch as men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, because it belongs to everybody to see you, to few to come in touch with you. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are
Men are so simple, and so subject to present necessities, that he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived
For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer.
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
Develop strenght to do bold things, not the strength to suffer
It is better to be feared than than to be loved if you can't not be both
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success, than to ake the lead in the introduction of new order of things
But to enable a prince to form an opinion of his servant there is one test which never falls; when you see the servant thinking more of his own interests than of yours, and seeking inwardly his own profit in everything, such a man will never make a good servant, nor will you ever be able to trust him; because he who has the state of another in his hands ought never to think of himself, but always of his prince, and never pay any attention to matters in which the prince is not concerned.
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