Machiavelli on Wisdom Quotes

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

"He who becomes a Prince through the favor of the people should always keep on good terms with them."

"Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims."

"Nature has created men so that they desire everything and are unable to attain everything."

"Mankind will always be the same and always have the same passions."

"Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and in choosing the least harmful of them as the best."

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

"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."

"God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and 그 share of glory which belongs to us."

"Prudence consists in knowing how to distinguish the character of troubles, and for choice to take the lesser evil."

"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise."

"A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtue of one man."

"I believe that the greatest gift that nature has given to men is that of being able to imagine."

"One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived."

"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."

"It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles."

"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."

"He who is the cause of another becoming powerful is the agent of his own destruction."

"For although the act condemns the doer, the end may justify him."

"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are."

"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."