"To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people."
― Niccolo Machiavelli
Topic(s):
Nature
More From Niccolo Machiavelli
- "The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
- "The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love."
- "Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."
More In Nature
- "I love romantic comedies. They’re for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There’s nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That’s not second nature to me, thank God."― Gabrielle Union
- "The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected."― Henry David Thoreau
- "You have to discover when you’re inadequate to be funny and you don’t know you’re inadequate when you’re a kid."― Larry David