Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.

So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.

No one should therefore fear that he cannot accomplish what others have accomplished, for, men are born, live, and die in quite the same way they always have.

Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.