“I love my native city, more than my own soul.” - Niccolo Machiavelli, Letter to Francesco Vettori, 1527, “And through this study of mine, were it to be read, it would be evident that during the fifteen years I have been studying the art of the state I have neither slept nor fooled around, and anybody ought to be happy to utilize someone who has had so much experience at the expense of others.” - Niccolo Machiavelli, letter to Francesco Vettori, 1513
And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death I pass indeed into their world.” - Niccolo Machiavelli, Letter to Francesco Vettori And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity, reply to me. On the threshold, I strip naked, taking off my muddy, sweaty work day clothes, and put on the robes of court and palace, and, in this graver dress, I enter the courts of the ancients, and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. “When evening comes, I return home and go to my study. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.” - Niccolo Machiavelli, instructions to diplomat Raffaello Girlami “Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. To increase the number of misdeeds will, therefore, make forgiveness more easily attainable, and will open the way to secure what we require for our own liberty.” - Niccolo Machiavelli, History of Florence, Book III, 3
“When many suffer, few seek vengeance for general evils are endured more patiently than private ones.
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If you imagine otherwise, you deceive yourself for, to one accustomed to the enjoyment of liberty, the slightest chains feel heavy, and every tie upon his free soul oppresses him.” - Niccolo Machiavelli, History of Florence, Book II, 8 “And if your conduct were in every respect upright, your demeanor amiable, and your judgments equitable, all these would be insufficient to make you beloved. Niccolo Machiavelli, History of Florence, Book II, 8 If you imagine otherwise, you deceive yourself for, to one accustomed to the enjoyment of liberty, the slightest chains feel heavy, and every tie upon his free soul oppresses him.
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“…the only inference to be drawn from his conduct, as Xenophon describes it, is, that the prince who would accomplish great things must have learned how to deceive.” - Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourses, Book II, 13Īnd if your conduct were in every respect upright, your demeanor amiable, and your judgments equitable, all these would be insufficient to make you beloved. “But the duke’s soldiers, not being content with having pillaged the men of Oliverotto, began to sack Sinigalia, and if the duke had not repressed this outrage by killing some of them they would have completely sacked it.” - Niccolo Machiavelli, Description Of The Methods Adopted By The Duke Valentino Having reflected upon it with great and prolonged diligence, I now send, digested into this little volume, to your Magnificence.” - Niccolo Machiavelli, Dedication to The Prince “I have not found among my possessions anything which I hold more dear than, or value so much as, my knowledge of the actions of great men, acquired by long experience in contemporary affairs, and a continual study of antiquity.
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