Author of quotes: Niccolo Machiavelli. Page 2

Don't modest plans - they are not able to excite the soul.

About people in General that they are ungrateful and fickle, prone to hypocrisy and deception that scares them the danger and leads profit: as long as you do good to them, they are your soul, promised nothing to you no mercy - no blood, no life, no children, no property, but when you are in need of them, straightway they will turn on you.

As an artist who paints a landscape, it is necessary to descend into the valley to look at the mountains and hills, and to climb the mountain to reach the valley and here: to grasp the essence of the people, should be the ruler, and to understand the nature of the rulers should belong to the people.

That war is just which is necessary, and arms are sacred, which is the last hope.

Who captured the city, have long been enjoying the freedom and spare it, the city will not be spared.

There is no business which the device would be difficult and dangerous, and success is more doubtful, than replacing the old order a new one.

People do not know how to be neither very bad nor very good.

Ambition people not know the end: first, they strive to not hurt them, then they start to hurt others.

People are always bad, until they were forced to the need for good.

The person who wants in all conditions to be virtuous, it remains only to die among the many those who are nonvirtuous.

About the mind of the ruler of the first is judged by the people he brings to itself; if it is faithful and able, you can always be confident in his wisdom, for he knew how to recognize their ability and retain their loyalty. If they are otherwise one cannot form, because the first mistake he made was in choosing them.

Not fair, not hurting others to satisfy the claims of the nobility, but the demands of the people because the people are more honest goal than the nobility: know wants to oppress the people, and the people do not want to be oppressed.

He who is a good friend, and he has good friends.
(Good friends go to someone who already knows how to be a good friend.)

Everyone sees what you seem, few feel what you are.