Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men in general are as much affected by what a thing appears to be as by what it is, indeed they are frequently influenced more by appearances than by reality.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men intrinsically do not trust new things that they have not experienced themselves.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance.

Niccolo Machiavelli