Wisdom Quote by Niccolò Machiavelli — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.”

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”

“Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.”

“Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.”

“Is it better to be loved or feared?”

“A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.”

“Забелязвам, че колкото по-здраво работя, толкова по-голям късмет имам.”

“Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.”

“Peace often looks like less, but feels like more.”

“It is easy to be wise after the event.”

“Brave? Or stupid?”

“We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the pathways of ordinary human conversation.”