The Prince

Quotes

• The ends justify the means.
• It is better to be loved than feared. But if you cannot be both, it is better to be feared than loved.
• Men are by nature ungrateful, fickle, deceitful, and hypocritical, cowardly in danger and greedy for gain.
• A ruler should have two friends: the laws and the army.
• Men will sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their inheritance.
• A ruler must know how to use both the nature of the beast and the nature of man.
• He who wishes to be always good will come to ruin among so many who are not good.