"Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some..." - Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.”

“From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.”

“Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.”

“Then others for breath of words respect, Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.”

“If you aint like me, you aint gotta like me.”

“The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.”

“Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.”

“Even a broke clock is right twice a day”

“We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.”