Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them.
The Prince, political philosophy
The Prince, Chapter XVIII: How Princes Should Keep Faith
1532
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"It is not fortune, but their own indolence, that causes men to abandon themselves to their fate."
Humorous"For a man who wishes to make a profession of good in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good."
Controversial"Men are more apt to forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony."
Controversial"For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often even more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are."
Controversial"He who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined."
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