A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.

The answer is, of course, that it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.

The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

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