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Quote DB :: Authors :: Nicolo Machiavelli :: View Quote View Quote "For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances as though they were realities. and are often more influenced by things that seem than by those that are." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Nicolo Machiavelli Listed in: Facts Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 5  Rate Quote 4 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Nicolo Machiavelli "It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new one." "Government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do it harm." "Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied." "Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years." "There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first is excellent, the second good, and the third useless." Top 5 quotes from Facts "Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism." "For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances as though they were realities. and are often more influenced by things that seem than by those that are." "The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get." "There are no facts, only interpretations." "You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts."

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