There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand more perilous to conduct or...
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within...
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of...
Politics have no relation to morals.
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a...
Nature that framed us of four elements warring within our breasts for...
To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince and to...
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to...
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he...
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing and...
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed for if you merely...
It is not titles that honor men but men that honor titles.
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed because they take...
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a...
Men rise from one ambition to another: first they seek to secure themselves...
The distinction between children and adults while probably useful for some...
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life the clearer we...
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the...
War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope...
Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error...
Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
The main foundations of every state new states as well as ancient or...
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
