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Staatstheoretiker, Philosoph, Schriftsteller, Historiker, gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Staatsphilosophen der Neuzeit, "Der Fürst", "Discorsi", "Von der Kriegskunst" (Italien, 1469 - 1527).

Niccolò Machiavelli · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Niccolò Machiavelli wäre heute 555 Jahre, 11 Monate, 29 Tage oder 203.074 Tage alt.

Geboren am 03.05.1469 in Florenz
Gestorben am 22.06.1527 in Florenz
Sternzeichen: ♉ Stier

• Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

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• And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in such a way that it does not become known, or, if it does become known, that you have a ready and quick defence.

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• As laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manners that laws may be maintained.

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• Before all else, be armed.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• Cruelties should be committed all at once.

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• Fortune is a woman, and therefore friendly to the young, who with audacity command her.

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• He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.

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• He who owes least to fortune is in the strongest position.

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• Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished.

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• I believe it to be most true that it seldom happens that men rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud.

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• I certainly think that it is better to be impetuous than cautious, for fortune is a woman, and it is necessary if you wish to master her, to conquer her by force.

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• I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words toward anyone, for neither diminishes the strength of the enemy.

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• If we must choose between them, it is far better to be feared than loved.

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• In our own days we have seen no princes accomplish great results save those who have been accounted miserly.

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• In respect ot foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes.

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• Injuries should be done all together, so that being, less tasted, they will give less offense. Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.

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• It is always bad to try to replace necessary planning by over-zealous action.

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• 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.

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• It is not he who first takes up arms that creates a rebellion but he who is the cause of it all.

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• It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

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