Famous Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli

Below are famous quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli - Italian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 - 1527).

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

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others.

War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.

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