Mackiavelli Utama

Virtue & Fortune

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless


Before all else,be armed