Niccolò Machiavelli Quotes

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

When Scipio became consul and was keen on getting the province of Africa, promising that Carthage should be completely destroyed, and the senate would not agree to this because Fabius Maximus was against it, he threatened to appeal to the people, for he knew full well how pleasing such projects are to the populace.

It is a common fault not to anticipate storms when the sea is calm.

Thus it is well to seem merciful faithful humane religious and upright and also to be so but the mind should remain so balanced that were it needful not to be so you should be able and know how to change to the contrary.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Princes should devolve on others those matters that entail responsibility, and reserve to themselves those that relate to grace and favour.

In judging policies we should consider the results that have been achieved through them rather than the means by which they have been executed.

resemblance between Fortune and women and concludes that it is the bold rather than the cautious man that will win and hold them both.

It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them.

For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer.

I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it; that they may weave its warp, but cannot break it. Yet they should never give up, because there is always hope, though they know not the end and more towards it along roads which cross one another and as yet are unexplored; and since there is hope, they should not despair, no matter what fortune brings or in what travail they find themselves.

It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather.

Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. 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.

Fear of evil is greater than the evil itself.