There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless. - Niccolo Machiavelli 1 Share Now -
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. - Niccolo Machiavelli 3 Share Now -
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. - Niccolo Machiavelli 4 Share Now -
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. - Niccolo Machiavelli 5 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot. - Niccolo Machiavelli 7 Share Now -
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. - Niccolo Machiavelli 8 Share Now -
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. - Niccolo Machiavelli 9 Share Now -
