Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.	Achievement
2	Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.	Cleverness
3	Fortune is a woman, and therefore friendly to the young, who with audacity command her.	Destiny
4	He who owes least to fortune is in the strongest position.	Destiny
5	Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied.	Enthusiasm
6	God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.	Free Agency
7	It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who have taken up a prejudice against you, either from envy or from any other cause.	Humility
8	Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.	Idealism
9	If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.	Injury
10	The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws.	Law

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