The Prince. Translated from the Original Italian ... To which is Prefixed an Introduction, Shewing the Close Analogy Between the Principles of Machiavelli and the Actions of Buonaparte. By J. Scott ByerleyLondon, 1810 - 211 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 94 - ... turns the arms adapted to each of these species, seeing that one without the other cannot be of any durable advantage. Now those animals whose forms the prince should know how to assume are the fox and the lion. The first can but feebly defend himself against the wolf, and the other readily falls into snares that are laid for him. From the first a prince will learn to be dexterous, and avoid the snares ; and from the other to be strong, and keep the wolves in awe. Those who despise the part of...
الصفحة 9 - It happens then as it does to physicians in the cure of a consumption, which in the commencement is easy to cure, and difficult to understand ; but when it has neither been discovered in due time, nor treated upon a proper principle, it becomes easy to understand, and difficult to cure. The same thing happens in state affairs, by foreseeing them at a distance, which is only done by men of talents : the evils which might arise from them are soon cured ; but when, from want of foresight, they are suffered...
الصفحة 94 - But they who entirely rely upon the lion's strength, will not always meet with success; in other words a prudent prince cannot and ought not to keep his word, except when he can do it without injury to himself, or when the circumstances under which he contracted the engagement still exist.
الصفحة 89 - Talibus Ilioneus : cuncti simul ore fremebant Dardanidae. 560 Tum breviter Dido, vultum demissa, profatur : Solvite corde metum, Teucri ; secludite curas. Res dura et regni novitas me talia cogunt Moliri, et late fines custode tueri.
الصفحة 138 - ... of that impetuosity and inflexibility of character which wholly governed him. From all these circumstances we may conclude, that those who cannot change their system when occasion requires it, will no doubt continue prosperous as long as they glide with the stream of fortune; but when that turns against them, they are ruined, from not being able to follow that blind goddess through all her variations. Besides, I think that it is better to be bold than too circumspect; because fortune is of a...
الصفحة 96 - ... dupes. One example, taken from the history of our own times, will be sufficient. Pope Alexander VI. played during his whole life a game of deception; and notwithstanding his faithless conduct was extremely well known, his artifices always proved successful.
الصفحة 97 - He should make it a rule above all things never to utter anything which does not breathe of kindness, justice, good faith, and piety: this last quality it is most important for him to appear to possess, as men in general judge more from appearances than from reality.
الصفحة 93 - ... relied on their good faith. It should therefore be known that there are two ways of deciding any contest : the one by laws, the other by force. The first is peculiar to men, the second to beasts...
الصفحة 93 - ... contest : the one by laws, the other by force. The first is peculiar to men, the second to beasts ; but when laws are not sufficiently powerful, it is necessary to recur to force : a prince ought therefore to understand how to use both these descriptions of arms. This doctrine is admirably illustrated to us by the ancient poets in the allegorical history of the education of Achilles, and many other princes of antiquity, by the centaur Chiron, who, under the double form of man and beast, taught...
الصفحة 134 - ... with their course, and leave everything to its natural tendency. The revolutions which in our times are of such frequent recurrence, seem to support this doctrine, and I own, that I, myself, am almost inclined to favour such opinions, particularly when I consider how far those events surpass all human conjecture; yet, as we confessedly possess a free will, it must, I think, be allowed, that chance does not so far govern the world as to leave no province for the exercise of human prudence.