Quotes About Influence

Moreover, men are less careful how they offend him who makes himself loved than him who makes himself feared. For love is held by the tie of obligation, which, because men are a sorry breed, is broken on every whisper of private interest; but fear is bound by the apprehension of punishment which never relaxes its grasp.

A wise prince must devise ways by which his citizens are always and in all circumstances dependent on him and on his authority; and then they will always be faithful to him.

Every one sees what you seem, but few know what you are, and these few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many who have the majesty of the State to back them up.

His actions have arisen in such a way, one out of the other, that men have never been given time to work steadily against him.

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to feared than loved.

it is not reasonable that he who is armed should yield obedience willingly to him who is unarmed

It's easy to convince people of something, but hard to keep them convinced.

que el que ayuda a otro a hacerse poderoso causa su propia ruina. Porque es natural que el que se ha vuelto poderoso recele de la misma astucia o de la misma fuerza gracias a las cuales se lo ha ayudado.

Quien propicia que otro se vuelva poderoso obra su propia ruina.

The prince who holds a country differing in the above respects ought to make himself the head and defender of his less powerful neighbours, and to weaken the more powerful amongst them, taking care that no foreigner as powerful as himself shall, by any accident, get a footing there. And the usual course of affairs is that, as soon as a powerful foreigner enters a country, all the subject states are drawn to him, moved by the hatred which they feel against the ruling power.

for even whilst you exercise it you lose the power to do so, and so become either poor or despised, or else, in avoiding poverty, rapacious and hated.

Having Come to Freedom, a Corrupt People Can with the Greatest Difficulty Maintain Itself Free

Returning to the question of being feared or loved, I come to the conclusion that, men loving according to their own will and fearing according to that of the prince, a wise prince should establish himself on that which is in his own control and not in that of others; he must endeavour only to avoid hatred, as is noted.

Y los hombres tienen menos cuidado en ofender a uno que se haga amar que a uno que se haga temer;

No hay que atacar al poder si no tienes la seguridad de destruirlo.

the prince who holds a country differing in the above respects ought to make himself the head and defender of his powerful neighbours, and to weaken the more powerful amongst them, taking care that no foreigner as powerful as himself shall, by any accident

quien promueve el que otro se convierta en poderoso labra su ruina, porque ese poder lo ha provocado o con la astucia o con la fuerza, y tanto la una como la otra resultan sospechosas al que se ha convertido en poderoso.

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is safer to be feared than loved

Los hombres se atreven más a ofender al que se hace amar, que al que se hace temer

Denn die Menschen sind so einfältig und so gewöhnt, den herrschenden Verhältnissen nachzugeben, dass der, welcher betrügen will, immer Leute findet, welche sich betrügen lassen.

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Todo el mundo ve lo que parecéis, pocos conocen a fondo lo que sois, y este pequeño numero no se atreverá a levantarse contra la mayoría, sostenida, además, por la majestad del poder soberano.

He who has relied least on fortune is established the strongest.