Treatise · Political literature · Philosophical literatureGod is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.Niccolo MachiavelliThe Prince · 1532★ 7.9
Political literature · Philosophical literatureWhoever 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 occasions for it.Niccolo MachiavelliDiscourses on Livy · 1531★ 6.2
Treatise · Political literature · Philosophical literatureA prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.Niccolo MachiavelliThe Prince · 1532★ 5.5
Treatise · Political literature · Philosophical literatureThe 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.Niccolo MachiavelliThe Prince · 1532★ 4.7
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