Only the Greatest and the Best Quotes from Niccolo Machiavelli




Quote : "When every one may tell you the truth' respect for you abates."

Quote : "Men will always prove untrue to you unless they are kept honest by constraint."

Quote : "Men are attracted more by the present than by the past."

Quote : "I hold it to be true that Fortune is the arbiter of one-half of our actions'but that she still leaves us to direct the other half' or perhaps a little less."

Quote : "So it happens with fortune' who shows her power where valour has not prepared to resist her' and thither she turns her forces where she knows that barriers and defences have not been raised to constrain."

Quote : "Fortune being changeful and mankind steadfast in their ways' so long as the two are in agreement men are successful' but unsuccessful when they fall out."

Quote : "It is better to be adventurous than cautious' because fortune is a woman' and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her."

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