A prince need trouble little about conspiracies when the people are well disposed, but when they are hostile and hold him in hatred, then he must fear everything and everybody.

The prince must be a lion, but he must also know how to play the fox.

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.

There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others.

When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.

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

The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.