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“I proclaim justice is nothing else”: Plato, The Republic, I, in The Works of Plato, 18.
“the knowledge by which we are to make”: Wolin, “Plato: Political Philosophy Versus Politics,” in Essays in the History of Political Thought, 4–5.
“the good lawgiver and the genuine politician”: Aristotle, The Politics, IV, 150.
“as an association of persons”: Aristotle, The Politics, I, 25.
“Wisdom is not only an extraordinary attribute”: Erasmus, Education of a Christian Prince, “Dedicatory Epistle,” 133.
“Should you read diligently and consider”: Machiavelli, The Prince, XXVI, 88.
“it ought to be welcomed by a prince”: Machiavelli et al., Machiavelli and His Friends, 265.
“are acquired, how they are retained”: Ibid., 264.
“In our change-loving Italy”: Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, I, 21.
“Many have imagined republics and principalities”: Machiavelli, Il Principe, XV, 147.
“Let the teacher paint a sort of celestial creature”: Erasmus, Education of a Christian Prince, 162.
“[W]e take it for granted”: Aristotle, The Politics, III, 108.
“The worthy exercise of the kingly office”: Aquinas, “On Princely Government,” in Selected Political Writings, 49.
“[A]ll human affairs are ever in a state of flux”: Machiavelli, Discourses, I, 123.
“the things of this world are so variable”: Machiavelli, Il Principe, X, 128.
“turns states and kingdoms upside down”: Machiavelli, “On Fortune,” in Chief Works, II, 746.
“No one can be called a good prince”: Gilbert, Machiavelli’s Prince and Its Forerunners, 83.
“must be prepared to shift”: Machiavelli, Il Principe, XVIII, 157.
“when he acts in harmony with the times”: Ibid., XXV, 187–88.
“are sustained by superior causes”: Ibid., XI, 44.
“Anyone who gains [new territories]”: Ibid., III, 90.
“Cesare Borgia was considered cruel”: Ibid., XVII, 151–52.
“infinitely cruel, and inimical to society”: Machiavelli, Discorsi, I, 49.
“Nonetheless, for he who would not wish to follow”: Ibid.
“that ‘the good’ is ‘that’ ”: Aristotle, Ethics, I, 25.
“Having reviewed all the Duke’s actions”: Machiavelli, Il Principe, VII, 115.
“that the prudence of men cannot manage”: Ibid., XXV, 84.
“I believe that even if it is true”: Ibid., 186–87.
“proves adaptable when unforseen events occur”: Ibid., II, 13–14.
“Fortune in her furious onrush”: Machiavelli, “On Fortune,” in Chief Works, II, 748.
“O great and wonderful happiness of man!”: Pico della Mirandola, On the Dignity of Man, 5.
“I must be cruel to be kind”: Shakespeare, Hamlet, III, IV.
“For where men have but little virtue”: Machiavelli, Discorsi, II, 159.
allowed themselves to be mastered by others: Ibid., 104.
“Everywhere Ambition and Avarice penetrate”: Machiavelli, “On Ambition,” in Chief Works, II, 735.
“But if they cannot succeed and still persist”: Machiavelli, Il Principe, III, 96.
“In all men’s acts”: Ibid., XVIII, 64.
“[I]t is the part of a prudent man”: Machiavelli, La Mandragola, in Chief Works, II, 793.
“It is . . . necessary that the prince”: Villari, The Life and Times of Niccolò Machiavelli, II, 157.
“[O]ne should note”: Machiavelli, Il Principe, XIX, 164.
“It may also be disputed whether fraud”: Villari, The Life and Times of Niccolò Machiavelli, II, 157.
“Tyrannical science”: Anglo, Machiavelli: The First Century, 285.
“The universe is so constituted”: Machiavelli, Il Principe, XXI, 179–80.
“[n]ot a thing in the world is eternal”: Machiavelli, “On Fortune,” in Chief Works, II, 748.
“redeem [Italy] from barbarian insolence”: Machiavelli, Il Principe, XXVI, 191.
“[G]overnment by one person, being the best”: Aquinas, “On Princely Government,” in Selected Political Writings, 29.
“All states—all those dominions”: Machiavelli, The Prince, I, 13.
“it seems to me that now so many factors”: Ibid., XXVI, 190.
“Everyone knows how laudable it is”: Ibid., XVIII, 155.
“a deceiver will never lack victims”: Ibid., 63.
“[T]here is such a chasm”: Ibid., XV, 147.
“Surely, it is not without purpose”: Deane, “The Political and Social Ideas of St. Augustine,” in Essays in the History of Political Thought, 90.
“evil”: Machiavelli, Il Principe, XVIII, 156.
“One cannot call it virtue”: Ibid., VIII, 118.
“It is a sound maxim”: Machiavelli, Discourses, I, 132.
“[A] prince must not care”: Machiavelli, Il Principe, XVII, 152.
“It must be understood”: Ibid., XVIII, 157.
“states cannot be held with paternosters”: Viroli, Niccolò’s Smile, 13.
“[W]hen the safety of one’s country”: Machiavelli, Discourses, III, 515.
“wicked”: Machiavelli, Il Principe, XVII, 153.
“[I]t is impossible to go against what nature”: Machiavelli, Discourses, III, 431.
“As for the lies of these citizens”: Machiavelli et al., Machiavelli and His Friends, 337.
“[A] wise prince cannot keep his word”: Machiavelli, Il Principe, XVIII, 156.
“If all men were good”: Ibid.
“I know everyone agrees that it would be laudable”: Ibid., XV, 148.
“[S]o great is man’s ambition”: Machiavelli, Discourses, II, 341.
“[H]uman appetites are insatiable”: Ibid., 268.
“Almost bereft of life”: Machiavelli, Il Principe, XXVI, 191.
“I claim that republics”: Machiavelli, Discourses, I, 196.
“And although someone may already have given”: Machiavelli, Il Principe, XXVI, 191.
“Nor at the moment can one see”: Ibid., 191.
“Should your house wish to emulate”: Ibid., 193.
“more oppressed than the Hebrews”: Ibid., 191.
“the only art which is of concern to one who commands”: Mansfield, Machiavelli’s Virtue, 45.
“I have discussed this little study of mine”: Machiavelli et al., Machiavelli and His Friends, 265.
“When I have seen it”: Ibid., 269.
“Against barbarian rage”: Machiavelli, The Prince, “Exhortation to Free Italy from the Hands of the Barbarians,” 90. Machiavelli is quoting famous lines from Petrarch’s “Italia Mia.”
XI. VITA CONTEMPLATIVA
“sordid and ignominious”: Machiavelli et al., Machiavelli and His Friends, 295.
“I have been living in the country”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 306.
“Leaving the woods”: Ibid., 307.
“[T]o live as a malcontent”: Machiavelli, “On Ingratitude or Envy,” in Chief Works, II, 740.
“He lives happily on a little”: Horace, “Otium,” ode II, 16.
“According to your letter of the 21st”: Machiavelli et al., Machiavelli and His Friends, 231.
“you were right and I was mistaken”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 247.
“If things had gone better”: Cicero, On the Good Life, 121.
“I believe that if his Holiness”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 234.
“[I]n this work I have expressed”: Machiavelli, Discorsi, “Dedication to Zanobi Buondelmonit and Cosimo Rucellai,” 3.
“a thousand squabbles and angry words”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 308.
“who live in idleness”: Machiavelli, Discourses, I, 245–46.
I have no greater gift to offer you”: Machiavelli, Il Principe, “Dedication,” 83–84.
“I shall leave out any discussion of
republics”: Ibid., II, 86.
“A prince, therefore, cannot in fact possess”: Ibid., XVIII, 157.
“a new argument, never (that I know)”: Villiari, The Life and Times of Niccolò Machiavelli, II, 288.
“for the common benefit of all”: Machiavelli, Discorsi, “Preface,” 5.
“I intend to depart substantially”: Machiavelli, Il Principe, XV, 146–47.
“[I]n the governing of kingdoms”: Machiavelli, Discourses, “Preface,” 98.
“When, therefore, I consider in what honor”: Ibid., 97–98.
“[S]ince fortune is changeable”: Machiavelli, Discorsi, II, 159.
“If one asks oneself how it comes about”: Machiavelli, Discourses, II, 277–78.
“your honor . . . would be darkened”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 421.
“On feast days I hear mass”: Ibid., 303.
“It was religion that facilitated”: Machiavelli, Discourses, I, 139.
“pattern of life”: Ibid., II, 278.
“the pusillanimity of those who have interpreted”: Ibid.
“the finger of Satan”: Anglo, Machiavelli: The First Century, 126.
“It is the Church that has kept”: Machiavelli, Discourses, I, 145.
“[O]wing to the bad example”: Ibid., 144.
“All states and all dominions”: Machiavelli, Il Principe, I, 85.
“that in all cities where the citizens”: Machiavelli, “Discourse on Remodeling the Government of Florence,” in Chief Works, I, 106.
“[I]t is the man who uses violence”: Machiavelli, Discourses, I, 132.
“Wherever you turn your eyes”: Machiavelli, “On Ambition,” in Chief Works, II, 738.
“[A] republic has a greater life”: Machiavelli, Discorsi, III, 187.
“government by the populace is better”: Machiavelli, Discourses, I, 256.
“dictatorship, so long as it was bestowed”: Ibid., 194.
“imminent danger”: Ibid., 196.
“[F]or it is not the well-being of individuals”: Ibid., II, 275.
“One should take it as a general rule”: Ibid., I, 132.
“[I]t must needs be taken for granted”: Ibid., 112.
“[I]n every republic”: Ibid., 113.
“good laws . . . [came] from those very tumults”: Ibid., 114.
“The enmities in Florence”: Machiavelli, Florentine Histories, VII, 277.
“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition”: Madison, Federalist no. 51, 323.
“every man is naturally impelled”: Pangle, The Spirit of Modern Republicanism, 71.
“[I]f we ask what it is the nobility”: Machiavelli, Discourses, I, 116.
“I believe it is necessary”: Machiavelli, “Discourse on the Remodeling of the Florentine Government,” in Chief Works, I, 109.
“When the three natural orders”: Thompson, “John Adams’ Machiavellian Moment,” 412.
“the sinking foundations of morality”: Livy, Early History of Rome, I, 30.
“The study of history is the best medicine”: Ibid.
“lack a proper appreciation of history”: Machiavelli, Discourses, “Preface to Book I,” 98.
“If the present be compared with the remote past”: Ibid., I, 208.
“There are two reasons why”: Ibid., III, 431–32.
“Such is the recurring cycle of constitutions”: Polybius, The Histories, VI, 220.
“[I]f anyone sets up one of the three”: Machiavelli, Discourses, I, 106.
“Thus [states] are always descending”: Machiavelli, Florentine Histories, V, 185.
XII. THE SAGE OF THE GARDEN
“So if at times I laugh or sing”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 233.
“so the poets are treated!”: Machiavelli, “Sonnet to Giuliano, Son of Lorenzo de’ Medici,” in Chief Works, II, 1013.
“[E]very day we go to the house of some girl”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 228.
“Lady Marietta curses God”: Ibid., 99.
“marriage yoke”: King, Machiavelli, 182.
“A fine miracle, a monk making a woman pregnant!”: Machiavelli, Clizia, in Chief Works, II, 835.
“his affairs are neglected”: Ibid., 836.
“My dearest Guido”: Machiavelli et al., Machiavelli and His Friends, 413–14.
“Honored and dearest foster father”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 399.
“aside from my own children”: Ibid., 404.
“at the sign of the horn”: Ibid., 233.
“It is certainly an amazing thing”: Ibid., 322.
“an unnatural sex act”: Machiavelli et al., Machiavelli and His Friends, 492.
“who like all her kind”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 446.
“[W]hile in the country I have met”: Ibid., 360–61.
“the old game”: Machiavelli et al., Machiavelli and His Friends, 293.
“With your prudence and intelligence”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 363.
“Anyone who read our letters”: Ibid., 392–93.
“that little thief”: Ibid., 391.
“I fear for my liberty”: Ibid., 392.
“fortune has left me nothing”: Ibid., 396.
“write to [Paolo] on my behalf”: Ridolfi, The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli, 162.
“noontime friends”: King, Machiavelli, 170.
“I never met anyone”: Machiavelli, The Art of War, I, 7.
“friends of the cool shade”: Ridolfi, The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli, 180.
“Fabrizio freely accepted the invitation”: Machiavelli, The Art of War, I, 9.
“not to those who are princes”: Machiavelli, Discourses, “Dedication,” 94.
“has filled the entire city with high hopes”: Machiavelli et al., Machiavelli and His Friends, 283.
“And our ass”: Ridolfi, The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli, 166.
“These days I have been reading”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 402–3.
“I do not mind bites or blows”: Ridolfi, The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli, 166.
“The writer is not very famous”: Machiavelli, La Mandragola, “Prologue,” in Chief Works, II, 777–78.
“Yet if anyone supposes that by finding fault”: Ibid., II, 778.
“Because life is short”: Ibid., 776.
“Your cleverness”: Ibid., V, 819.
“[I] put my finger in sin”: Ibid., IV, 810.
“many times one comes to harm”: Ibid., II, 810.
“If into the same world the same men”: Machiavelli, Clizia, “Prologue,” in Chief Works, II, 823.
“It remains for me to tell you”: Ibid., 824.
the scenery painted by Andrea del Sarto and Bastiano (Aristotle) da Sangallo: Vasari, Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, II, 432.
“a most amusing comedy”: Ibid., 431.
“acquired so great a name”: Ibid., 432.
“[t]he stage was so full of people”: Sanudo, Cità Excelentissima, 492.
“Niccolò Machiavelli, Historian”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 465.
“everyone admires . . . much more than anything else”: Ibid., 410.
“Eat plain food”: Ross, Lives of the Early Medici, 332–35.
“Giuliano, now that God has given us the papacy”: Sanudo, Cita Excellentissima, 180.
“I am very glad you took Machiavelli”: Ridolfi, The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli, 177.
“[H]e willingly conversed in his leisure time”: Ibid.
“Zanobi Buondelmonti and even Niccolò Machiavelli”: Villari, The Life and Times of Niccolò Machiavelli, II, 353.
“The Pope and his Medici”: Ibid., 252–53.
“The Medici who were governing then”: Machiavelli, “A Discourse on Remodeling the Government of Florence,” in Chief Works, I, 104–5.
“[T]o form a princedom where a republic”: Ibid., 107.
“there are three sorts of men”: Ibid., 109.
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sp; “all decided it was a good thing”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 414–15.
a sample of what he could achieve in the genre: Ridolfi, The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli, 181.
“He is to be hired for”: Machiavelli et al., Machiavelli and His Friends, 329.
“It was certainly good judgment”: Ibid., 335.
“To speak of the people”: Villari, The Life and Times of Niccolò Machiavelli, II, 90–91.
“to wish to speak of the affairs of the world”: Ibid., 89.
“easier to describe in books”: Ibid., 155.
“The Italians are not strong enough for resistance”: Ibid., 500.
“Magnificent Lord Francescus Guicciardinis”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 422–23.
“My dearest Machiavelli”: Ibid., 427–28.
“I must tell you that when the crossbowman”: Ibid., 424.
“gobbl[ing] up”: Ibid., 430.
“a good man could not make war”: Machiavelli, The Art of War, I, 17.
“common soldiers [who] laid down their arms”: Ibid., 17–18.
“For the enmities between the people”: Machiavelli, Florentine Histories, III, 105.
“The night that Piero Soderini ceased to breathe”: Villori, The Life and Times of Niccolò Machiavelli, II, 37.
he was a decent man but an inffectual leader: See especially Machiavelli, Discourses, III, 393–94.
“there are very few, if any”: Ibid., 402.
“I’ll send your regards to the chickens”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 435.
XIII. NIGHTMARE AND DREAM
“My dear friend”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 437–38.
“I well understand that just now”: Villari, The Life and Times of Niccolò Machiavelli, II, 500.
“[T]he matter is of great importance”: Ridolfi, The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli, 213.
“[I]f it could be brought to the desired fruition”: Ibid.
“When I asked him again”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 438.
“sow in sand and in water”: Machiavelli, “On Ingratitude or Envy,” in Chief Works, II, 740.
“I must warn you”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 444–45.
“[F]or three miles about”: Ibid., 441.
“You are accustomed to your Barbera”: Ibid., 446.
a concoction of bitter aloe, saffron, and Armenian bole: Ibid., 454.