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

It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state of order again; for the nature of mundane affairs not allowing them to continue in an even course, when they have arrived at their greatest perfection, they soon begin to decline.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

Any harm you do to a man should be done in such a way that you need not fear his revenge.

It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.