The Atheling

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

quotes:

- How we live is so unlike from how we ought to live that he who heeds what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his upkeep.

- Of mankind, we may say they are fake, fickle, and greedy of gain.

- Men deem mostly more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see but few can feel. Everyone sees what you seem to be, but few truly know what you are.

- It must be ongot that there is nothing harder to lead out, nor more speedfully unlikely, nor more plightful to handle, than to spur a new fading of things.

- Wisdom is of knowing how to spot the blee of swench, and in choosing the lesser evil.

- Any man who seeks to be good all the time is bound to fall among the greater score of men who are not good. Hence an atheling who wants to keep swey must learn how sometimes not to be good.