All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to the arts which confer honour and benefit on the human race (among whom I reckon the impious, the cruel, the ignorant, the indolent, the base and the worthless), are held in infamy and detestation.
Niccolo MachiavelliIt makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.
Niccolo MachiavelliThe end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.
Niccolo Machiavelli....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.
Niccolo Machiavelli