Men are so simple and yield so readily to the necessities of the moment that he who deceives will always find someone who will let himself be deceived.
The Prince, political philosophy
The Prince, Chapter XVIII: How Princes Should Keep Faith
1532
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"The people, when they are not restrained by fear, are always ready to commit every kind of excess."
Humorous"The Romans, in order to hold Capua, Alba, and Ostia, did not destroy them, but gave them their own laws and left them free, and they did not hold them without difficulty."
Humorous"All men are bad and ever ready to use their inherent baseness whenever they have a free opportunity to do so."
Controversial"If a prince wants to keep his state, he must learn how to be not good, and to use or not use this according to the necessity."
Humorous"He who is not a friend to the new order of things must be an enemy to it."
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