Niccolò Machiavelli | The Prince ⚔️

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. https://twitter.com/NiccoloDaily/status/2079066821550895398

Politics have no relation to morals. https://twitter.com/NiccoloDaily/status/2079061038431875462

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively.  Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth.  Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer. https://twitter.com/NiccoloDaily/status/2078977737235050744

Name a book that rewired your brain. Any genre, any topic. https://twitter.com/NiccoloDaily/status/2078952029808934982

Remember this line from Machiavelli: “Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.” https://twitter.com/NiccoloDaily/status/2078946493545742579

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. https://twitter.com/NiccoloDaily/status/2078927398947414288

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast. https://twitter.com/NiccoloDaily/status/2078795539403915759

How one lives is so far distant from how one ought to live, that he who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation. https://twitter.com/NiccoloDaily/status/2078788742802788383

The wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour. https://twitter.com/NiccoloDaily/status/2078686818409558370

Machiavelli said it is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver, Do you agree or not? https://twitter.com/NiccoloDaily/status/2078645509653160020

You’re insulted in public. Do you answer the insult or protect your reputation through silence? https://twitter.com/NiccoloDaily/status/2078584357153907152

Do you agree with Machiavelli on this? “If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.” https://twitter.com/NiccoloDaily/status/2078566237542441269

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands. https://twitter.com/NiccoloDaily/status/2078564753593586052

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved, https://twitter.com/NiccoloDaily/status/2078523244475187692

Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong. https://twitter.com/NiccoloDaily/status/2078516447920205899

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. https://twitter.com/NiccoloDaily/status/2078515702240063733

Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion. https://twitter.com/NiccoloDaily/status/2078401435797016962

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free. https://twitter.com/NiccoloDaily/status/2078335761103888622

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not. https://twitter.com/NiccoloDaily/status/2078331981348139299

For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying. https://twitter.com/NiccoloDaily/status/2078293978114367982