Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies.

Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony

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

Cruelties should be committed all at once.

Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.

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

In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.