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Niccolò Machiavelli — Portrait after a picture by Santi di Tito (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Niccolò Machiavelli

Florentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist

1469–1527

20 quotes, most often on Leadership, War & Peace and Motivation & Goals.

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot
The Prince (1532), Chapter IIIIn context
- Enemies
- Power
The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws.
The Prince (1532), Chapter XIIIn context
- Laws
- Power

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