Quotes by Machiavelli, Niccolo

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. >>

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will tast >>

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces. >>

Quotations about Nations

Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself >>

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best >>

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nati >>

States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.

Machiavelli, Niccolo