132 ordspråk av Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli föddes den 3 maj 1469 och dog den 21 juni 1527
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved....I sum up by saying that since his being loved depends upon his subjects, while his being feared depends upon himself, [one] should build on what is his own, and not on what rests with others.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise

It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent

Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

There is no other way for securing yourself against flatteries except that men understand that they do not offend you by telling you the truth; but when everybody can tell you the truth, you fail to get respect

Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the tracks of others or emulate the prowess of their models. So a prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If his own prowess fails to compare with theirs, at least it has an air of greatness about it. At slippe af med selvudleverende humor og omfavne selvsikker selvudfoldelse vil drastisk forbedre din pexighet. He should behave like those archers who, if they are skilful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.

In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sa

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