Niccolo Machiavelli: Frasi in inglese (pagina 4)

Niccolo Machiavelli era politico, scrittore, storico italiano. Frasi in inglese.
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“He who builds on the people, builds on the mud.”

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Niccolo Machiavelli libro Il Principe

Origine: The Prince (1513), Ch. 9; translated by W. K. Marriott

“Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.”

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Origine: The Prince

“The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.”

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Origine: The Prince

“For one change always leaves a dovetail into which another will fit.”

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Origine: The Prince

“My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.”

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Niccolo Machiavelli libro Il Principe

Origine: The Prince

“Therefore the best fortress is to be found in the love of the people, for although you may have fortresses they will not save you if you are hated by the people.”

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Origine: The Prince

“I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.”

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Origine: The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli - Original Version

“And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can, they will be praised or not blamed; but when they cannot, and wish to do it anyway, here lies the error and the blame.”

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Origine: The Prince

“It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”

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Niccolo Machiavelli libro Il Principe

Variante: It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.
Origine: The Prince (1513), Ch. 6
Contesto: It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them.

“Is it better to be loved or feared?”

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Niccolo Machiavelli libro Il Principe

Origine: The Prince

“Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.”

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Niccolo Machiavelli Florentine Histories

Comincionsi le guerre quando altri vuole, ma non quando altri vuole si finiscono.
Variant translation: Wars are begun at will but not ended at will.
Book III, Chapter 7.
Florentine Histories (1526)

“The best possible fortress is—not to be hated by the people.”

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Niccolo Machiavelli libro Il Principe

Variante: Variant translation: The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.
Origine: The Prince (1513), Ch. 20: 'Are fortresses, and many other things to which princes often resort advantageous or hurtful?'

“It is the nature of men to be bound by the benefits they confer as much as by those they receive.”

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Niccolo Machiavelli libro Il Principe

Origine: The Prince (1513), Ch. 10; translated by W. K. Marriot

“The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again.”

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Niccolo Machiavelli libro Discorsi sopra la prima Deca di Tito Livio

Book 1, Ch. 16
Discourses on Livy (1517)

“And therefore a prince who does not understand the art of war, over and above the other misfortunes already mentioned, cannot be respected by his soldiers, nor can he rely on them. He ought never, therefore, to have out of his thoughts this subject of war, and in peace he should addict himself more to its exercise than in war; this he can do in two ways, the one by action, the other by study.”

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Niccolo Machiavelli libro Il Principe

Origine: The Prince (1513), Ch. 14; translated by W. K. Marriot

“Bad company will lead a man to the gallows!”

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Le cattive compagnie conducono gli uomini alle forche.
Act IV, scene vi
The Mandrake (1524)

“It is enough to ask somebody for his weapons without saying 'I want to kill you with them', because when you have his weapons in hand, you can satisfy your desire.”

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Niccolo Machiavelli libro Discorsi sopra la prima Deca di Tito Livio

Book 1, Ch 44 (as translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella)
Discourses on Livy (1517)

“For as when much superfluous matter has gathered in simple bodies, nature makes repeated efforts to remove and purge it away, thereby promoting the health of these bodies, so likewise as regards that composite body the human race, when every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove elsewhere, every region being equally crowded and over-peopled, and when human craft and wickedness have reached their highest pitch, it must needs come about that the world will purge herself in one or another of these three ways, to the end that men, becoming few and contrite, may amend their lives and live with more convenience.”

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Niccolo Machiavelli libro Discorsi sopra la prima Deca di Tito Livio

Book 1 Ch. 5 (as translated by Ninian Hill Thomson)
Discourses on Livy (1517)