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Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince, written around 1513 but not published until 1532, five years after his death. He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science.

culture · Florentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist (1469–1527) · writer · politician · historian · philosopher · political theorist · military theorist · translator · poet · diplomat · playwright · also Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolas Machiavel, Machiavel, Machiavelli

Born 3 May 1469 · Died 21 June 1527 · Q1399

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    it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved.

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    imaginary republics and principalities

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    this lord is splendid and magnificent

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    Non si debbe mai lasciare seguire uno disordine per fuggire una guerra, perché la non si fugge, ma si differisce a tuo disavvantaggio. (wł.)

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    Le iniurie si debbono fare tutte insieme, acciò che, assaporandosi meno, offendino meno: è benefizii si debbono fare a poco a poco, acciò che si assaporino meglio. (wł.)

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    Sia meglio essere impetuoso che respettivo, perché la fortuna è donna: ed è necessario, volendola tenere sotto, batterla e urtarla. (wł.)

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“it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved.”
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Indiatimes: Quote of the Day by Niccolò Machiavelli, "There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you"
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And the Riverside Shakespeare Company in 1979, as a musical comedy by Peer Raben in Munich's Anti Theatre in 1971, and at London's National Theatre in 1984
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“Il che è comune defetto delli uomini, non fare conto nella bonaccia della tempesta. (wł.)”
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“Quelli che si obbligano, e non sieno rapaci, si debbono onorare et amare; quelli che non si obbligano. (wł.)”
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“Li uomini offendono o per paura o per odio. (wł.)”
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“Le iniurie si debbono fare tutte insieme, acciò che, assaporandosi meno, offendino meno: è benefizii si debbono fare a poco a poco, acciò che si assaporino meglio. (wł.)”
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“E però uno principe savio debba pensare uno modo per il quale li sua cittadini, sempre et in ogni qualità di tempo, abbino bisogno dello stato e di lui: e sempre poi li saranno fedeli. (wł.)”
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“Opis: Niccolo napisał słynnego Księcia, którego postać tytułowa zainspirowana była osobą Cesare Borgii, syna papieża Aleksandra VI, brata Lucrezii, wł. polityka, kardynała, księcia Romanii.”
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“Sia meglio essere impetuoso che respettivo, perché la fortuna è donna: ed è necessario, volendola tenere sotto, batterla e urtarla. (wł.)”
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“Dovete adunque sapere come sono due generazioni da combattere (…) bisogna, adunque, essere volpe (…) e leone. (wł.)”
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“Li uomini sono sempre nimici delle imprese dove si vegga difficultà. (wł.)”
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“Non si debbe mai lasciare seguire uno disordine per fuggire una guerra, perché la non si fugge, ma si differisce a tuo disavvantaggio. (wł.)”
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“Bisogna, adunque, essere volpe a conoscere è lacci, e lione a sbigottire è lupi. (wł.)”
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“È principali fondamenti che abbino tutti li stati, cosí nuovi come vecchi o misti, sono le buone legge e le buone arme. (wł.)”
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“Li uomini sdimenticano più presto la morte del padre che la perdita del patrimonio. (wł.)”
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“Li uomini sempre ti riusciranno tristi, se da una necessità non sono fatti buoni. (wł.)”
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“E sono tanto semplici li uomini, e tanto obediscano alle necessità presenti, che colui che inganna troverrà sempre chi si lascerà ingannare. (wł.)”
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“Uno principe savio debbe, quando ne abbi la occasione, nutrirsi con astuzia qualche inimicizia, acciò che, oppresso quella, ne seguiti maggiore sua grandezza. (wł.)”
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