black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Related Topics

Ashamed Contrary Example God Imitate Influence Strive Such Wick

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

Against Do Faith Interest Keep Out Ruler Wise
So that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

Does Either Fear Indulge Injury Ought Vengeance
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

Better Both Fear Love One
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

Act Arrange Free Law Lay Men Necessity Presupoose Scope State Wickedness
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

Contempt Country Decay Religion See Sign Sure
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

Destry Injure Men Merely Offend Ought Retailable Unable Vengeance
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

Broken Give Necessity Past Present Promise Work
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

Deception Immediate Incline Lack Men Obey Simple Victim
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

Arm Except Hope Necessary Premise War
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

Fickle Gain General Greedy Hypocritical Man Mankind
When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

Commerce Confidence Cowardice Distrust Either Hatred Offend People Show
To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

Must Nature People Prince Understand
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

First Man Principle Republic Return Simple Sometimes
Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

Difficult Lack Love Safer Since Since Fear Together Two Must
His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

Ashamed Contrary Example God Imitate Influence Strive Such Wick
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

Away Belong Everything Glory God Share Take Willing

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes