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Top 250 Niccolò Machiavelli Quotes (2025 Update)
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Niccolò Machiavelli Quote: “Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never test them except when you see that they hope to win.”

251. “Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never test them except when you see that they hope to win.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli Quote: “It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men.”

252. “It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli Quote: “When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.”

253. “When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli Quote: “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 defense.”

254. “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 defense.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli Quote: “It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.”

255. “It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli Quote: “I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.”

256. “I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli Quote: “A blast in the human breast is nothing to boast of.”

257. “A blast in the human breast is nothing to boast of.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli Quote: “There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.”

258. “There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli Quote: “They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.”

259. “They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli Quote: “The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.”

260. “The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli Quote: “Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.”

261. “Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli Quote: “Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.”

262. “Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli Quote: “Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.”

263. “Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli Quote: “To be feared is much safer then to be loved.”

264. “To be feared is much safer then to be loved.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli Quote: “In the armies, and among every ten men, there must be one of more life, of more heart, or at least of more authority, who with his spirit, with his words, and with his example keeps the others firm and disposed to fight.”

265. “In the armies, and among every ten men, there must be one of more life, of more heart, or at least of more authority, who with his spirit, with his words, and with his example keeps the others firm and disposed to fight.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli Quote: “And if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the experience of the contrary had not been seen, but time, which is said to be the father of every truth, will cause it to be discovered.”

266. “And if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the experience of the contrary had not been seen, but time, which is said to be the father of every truth, will cause it to be discovered.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli Quote: “There is in everything a latent evil peculiar to it.”

267. “There is in everything a latent evil peculiar to it.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli Quote: “There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.”

268. “There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

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