Niccolo Machiavelli: Frasi in inglese (pagina 5)

Niccolo Machiavelli era politico, scrittore, storico italiano. Frasi in inglese.
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“It should be noted that hatred is acquired as much by good works as by bad ones, therefore, as I said before, a prince wishing to keep his state is very often forced to do evil.”

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Niccolo Machiavelli libro Il Principe

Origine: The Prince (1513), Ch. 19; translated by W. K. Marriot

“When evening comes, I return home and enter my study; on the threshold I take off my workday clothes, covered with mud and dirt, and put on the garments of court and palace. Fitted out appropriately, I step inside the venerable courts of the ancients, where, solicitously received by them, I nourish myself on that food that alone is mine and for which I was born; where I am unashamed to converse with them and to question them about the motives for their actions, and they, out of their human kindness, answer me. And for four hours at a time I feel no boredom, I forget all my troubles, I do not dread poverty, and I am not terrified by death. I absorb myself into them completely.”

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Letter to Francesco Vettori http://www2.idehist.uu.se/distans/ilmh/Ren/flor-mach-lett-vettori.htm (10 December 1513), in James Atkinson (trans.), Prince Machiavelli (1976), p. 19

“Hence it comes that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed.”

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Niccolo Machiavelli libro Il Principe

Origine: The Prince (1513), Ch. 6; translated by N. H. Thomson

“There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.”

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Origine: The Prince (1513), Ch. 22; translated by W. K. Marriot

“Men are so simple, and so subject to present necessities, that he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.”

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Niccolo Machiavelli libro Il Principe

Origine: The Prince (1513), Ch. 18; translated by W. K. Marriot

“As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to whoever arranges to found a Republic and establish laws in it, to presuppose that all men are bad and that they will use their malignity of mind every time they have the opportunity; and if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the experience of the contrary had not been seen, but time, which is said to be the father of every truth, will cause it to be discovered.”

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Niccolo Machiavelli libro Discorsi sopra la prima Deca di Tito Livio

Book 1, Ch. 3 Variant portion: Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
Discourses on Livy (1517)

“It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state of order again; for the nature of mundane affairs not allowing them to continue in an even course, when they have arrived at their greatest perfection, they soon begin to decline. In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend; and thus from good they gradually decline to evil, and from evil again return to good. The reason is, that valor produces peace; peace, repose; repose, disorder; disorder, ruin; so from disorder order springs; from order virtue, and from this, glory and good fortune.”

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Niccolo Machiavelli Florentine Histories

Book V, Chapter 1 http://www.readprint.com/chapter-7136/Niccolo-Machiavelli
Florentine Histories (1526)

“This return of Republics back to their principles also results from the simple virtue of one man, without depending on any law that excites him to any execution: none the less, they are of such influence and example that good men desire to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life contrary to those examples.”

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Niccolo Machiavelli libro Discorsi sopra la prima Deca di Tito Livio

Book 3, Ch. 1
Discourses on Livy (1517)

“Fear of evil is greater than the evil itself.”

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Sono maggiori li spaventi ch'e mali.
Act III, scene xi
The Mandrake (1524)

“When Machiavelli came to the end of his life, he had a vision shortly before giving up the ghost. He saw a small company of poor scoundrels, all in rags, ill-favoured, famished, and, in short, in as bad plight as possible. He was told that these were the inhabitants of paradise, of whom it is written, Beati pauperes, quoniam ipsorum est regnum caelorum.. After this, he was asked to which of the groups he would choose to belong; he answered that he would much rather be in Hell with those great geniuses, to converse with them about affairs of state, than be condemned to the company of the verminous scoundrels that he had first been shown.”

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This account of Machiavelli's """"Dream"""" was not published until a century after his death, in Etienne Binet's Du salut d'Origene (1629).
There is an earlier but more oblique reference in a letter written by Giovambattista Busini in 1549: """"Upon falling ill, [Machiavelli] took his usual pills and, becoming weaker as the illness grew worse, told his famous dream to Filippo [Strozzi], Francesco del Nero, Iacopo Nardi and others, and then reluctantly died, telling jokes to the last."""".
The """"Dream"""" is commonly condensed into a more pithy form, such as """"I desire to go to hell, and not to heaven. In the former place I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings, and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks, hermits, and apostles"""".
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“Never let any Government imagine that it can choose perfectly safe courses… Prudence consists in knowing how to distinguish the character of troubles, and for choice to take the lesser evil.”

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Niccolo Machiavelli libro Il Principe

Origine: The Prince (1513), Ch. 21; translated by W. K. Marriot

“A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.”

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Origine: The Prince (1513), Ch. 18

“A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers. From the latter he is defended by being well armed and having good allies, and if he is well armed he will have good friends, and affairs will always remain quiet within when they are quiet without, unless they should have been already disturbed by conspiracy; and even should affairs outside be disturbed, if he has carried out his preparations and has lived as I have said, as long as he does not despair, he will resist every attack.”

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Niccolo Machiavelli libro Il Principe

Origine: The Prince (1513), Ch. 19; Variant: Against foreign powers, a prince can defend himself with good weapons and good friends; if he has good weapons, he will never lack for good friends. (as translated by RM Adams)

“Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.”

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

“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.”

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Origine: The Prince (1513), Ch. 26; translated by W. K. Marriot

“The first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him; and when they are capable and faithful he may always be considered wise, because he has known how to recognize the capable and to keep them faithful. But when they are otherwise one cannot form a good opinion of him, for the prime error which he made was in choosing them.”

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Niccolo Machiavelli libro Il Principe

Variante: Variant translation: The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Origine: The Prince (1513), Ch. 22; translated by W. K. Marriot

“A man who wishes to act entirely up to his professions of virtue soon meets with what destroys him among so much that is evil.”

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Niccolo Machiavelli libro Il Principe

Variante: A man who strives after goodness in all his acts is sure to come to ruin, since there are so many men who are not good.
Origine: The Prince (1513), Ch. 15; translated by W. K. Marriot

“Such-like deaths, which are deliberately inflicted with a resolved and desperate courage, cannot be avoided by princes, because any one who does not fear to die can inflict them.”

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Origine: The Prince (1513), Ch. 19; translated by W. K. Marriot

“In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”

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In terra di ciechi chi vi ha un occhio è signore.
Act III, scene ix
The Mandrake (1524)

“War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.”

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Niccolo Machiavelli libro Il Principe

This is a quotation of Titus Livius IX:1 iustum enim est bellum quibus necessarium, et pia arma ubi nulla in armis spes est) that Machiavelli uses in Ch. 24 of Discourses on Livy; Machiavelli similarly writes that "The justice of the cause is conspicuous; for that war is just which is necessary, and those arms are sacred from which we derive our only hope." (The Prince, Ch. 26)
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