Only the Greatest and the Best Quotes from Niccolo Machiavelli



Quote : "For it is the nature of men to be bound by the benefits they confer as much as by those they receive."

Quote : "The chief foundations of all states' new as well as old or composite' are good laws and good arms."

Quote : "I say' therefore' that the arms with which a prince defends his state are either his own' or they are mercenaries' auxiliaries' or mixed. Mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous; and if one holds his state based on these arms' he will stand neither firm nor safe; for they are disunited' ambitious' and without discipline' unfaithful' valiant before friends' cowardly before enemies; they have neither the fear of God nor fidelity to men' and destruction is deferred on."

Quote : "Arms of others either fall from your back' or they weigh you down' or they bind you fast."

Quote : "And one's own forces are those which are composed either of subjects' citizens' or dependents; all others are mercenaries or auxiliaries."

Quote : "It is seen that when princes have thought more of ease than of arms they have lost their states."

Quote : "Therefore it is wiser to have a reputation for meanness which brings reproach without hatred' than to be compelled through seeking a reputation for liberality to incur a name for rapacity which begets reproach with hatred."

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