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The more legitimate Sovereigns descend from their true dignity, and a liberal policy, the nearer they approach the baseness of usurpation and the Machiavellism of rebellion. Like other upstarts, they never suffer an equal. If you do not keep yourself above them, they will crush you beneath them. If they have no reason to fear you, they will create some quarrel to destroy you.
It has been said that Spinozism or Transcendentalism in poetic production becomes Machiavellism in reflection: for the same reasons we may always expect sentimentalism in theory to become under the pressure of action a very self-protecting guile.
Though he was not a man of great powers of mind, capable of taking comprehensive views of the world, still he was a great character that is to say, a thoroughly good, noble, spotless, and honourable man, which in these days forms a better title to be recognised as great than do craftiness, Machiavellism, and grasping ambition."
The more legitimate Sovereigns descend from their true dignity, and a liberal policy, the nearer they approach the baseness of usurpation and the Machiavellism of rebellion. Like other upstarts, they never suffer an equal. If you do not keep yourself above them, they will crush you beneath them. If they have no reason to fear you, they will create some quarrel to destroy you.
The more legitimate Sovereigns descend from their true dignity, and a liberal policy, the nearer they approach the baseness of usurpation and the Machiavellism of rebellion. Like other upstarts, they never suffer an equal. If you do not keep yourself above them, they will crush you beneath them. If they have no reason to fear you, they will create some quarrel to destroy you.
He treated me as if I had been a long-shore loafer. Never mind that. He is your husband. Fear in those you care for is hard to bear for any man. And so, he " "What Machiavellism!" "Eh, what did you say?" "I only wondered where you had observed that. On the sea?" "Observed what?" he said, absently. Then pursuing his idea "One word from you ought to be enough." "You think so?" "I am sure of it.
But British sentiment had now turned against the Holy Alliance, and the British press pronounced the Monroe doctrine "noble and firm, yet temperate and pacific." They contrasted its "manly plainness" with the Machiavellism and hypocrisy of the European manifestos. "Intervention in South American affairs," said one writer, "may now be considered as at rest.
The Sincerity of Machiavelli in this Essay Machiavellism His deliberate Formulation of a cynical political Theory Analysis of the Prince Nine Conditions of Principalities The Interest of the Conqueror acknowledged as the sole Motive of his Policy Critique of Louis XII. Feudal Monarchy and Oriental Despotism Three Ways of subduing a free City Example of Pisa Principalities founded by Adventurers Moses, Romulus, Cyrus, Theseus Savonarola Francesco Sforza Cesare Borgia Machiavelli's personal Relation to him Machiavelli's Admiration of Cesare's Genius A Sketch of Cesare's Career Concerning those who have attained to Sovereignty by Crimes Oliverotto da Fermo The Uses of Cruelty Messer Ramiro d' Orco The pessimistic Morality of Machiavelli On the Faith of Princes Alexander VI. The Policy of seeming virtuous and honest Absence of chivalrous Feeling in Italy The Military System of a powerful Prince Criticism of Mercenaries and Auxiliaries Necessity of National Militia The Art of War Patriotic Conclusion of the Treatise Machiavelli and Savonarola.
The introduction of the conception of intuition, a highly subjective conception, into the system of a practical state philosophy like Confucianism could not but lead in the practice of the statesman to Machiavellism. The statesman who followed the teaching of Wang Yang-ming had the opportunity of justifying whatever he did by his intuition.
Here we have the first specimen of that Machiavellism of motives, which subsequently disfigured the poetry of Corneille, and which is not only repulsive, but also for the most part both clumsy and unsuitable. He flattered himself, that in knowledge of men and the world, in an acquaintance with courts and politics, he surpassed the most shrewd and clear-sighted observers.
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