Nicolás Maquiavelo: Frases en inglés (página 3)

Nicolás Maquiavelo era diplomático, funcionario público, filósofo político y escritor italiano. Frases en inglés.
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“How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.”

Niccolo Machiavelli libro El Príncipe

Fuente: The Prince (1513), Ch. 15
Contexto: Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about his own ruin than his preservation.

“Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.”

Variante: Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

“A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent.”

Niccolo Machiavelli libro El Príncipe

Fuente: The Prince (1513), Ch. 6; translated by Luigi Ricci

“You don't avoid such a war, you merely postpone it, to your own disadvantage.”

Niccolo Machiavelli libro El Príncipe

Fuente: The Prince (1513), Ch. 3 (as translated by RM Adams)
Contexto: If someone puts up the argument that King Louis gave the Romagna to Pope Alexander, and the kingdom of Naples to Spain, in order to avoid a war, I would answer as I did before: that you should never let things get out of hand in order to avoid war. You don't avoid such a war, you merely postpone it, to your own disadvantage.

“Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.”

Niccolo Machiavelli libro Discursos sobre la primera década de Tito Livio

Book 1, Ch. 3 (as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick)
Discourses on Livy (1517)