511 Quotes by Niccolò Machiavelli

Çünkü gerçekten sahiplenebilmek için yakıp yıkmaktan başka bir çare de yoktur. Ve özgürce yaşamaya alışık bir kenti ele geçiren biri eğer o kenti yakıp yıkmazsa, kendisi o kent tarafından yakılıp yıkılmayı bekliyor demektir.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

Never do your enemy a minor injury.

As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the fear of God is wanting, there the country will come to ruin, unless it be sustained the fear of the prince, which temporarily supply the want of religion.

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore, it is necessary for a Prince who wishes to maintain himself to learn how not to be good and to use this knowledge and not use it according to the necessity of the case

The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.