3 Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes on Risk

Niccolo Machiavelli quotes on risk

2. The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go away, they are only postponed to someone else's advantage. Therefore, they made war with Philip and Antiochus in Greece, in order not to have to fight them in Italy... They never went by that saying which you constantly hear from the wiseacres of our day, that time heals all things. They trusted rather their own character and prudence- knowing perfectly well that time contains the seeds of all things, good as well as bad.

23. Io iudico bene questo, che sia meglio essere impetuoso che respettivo; perche la fortuna e donna, et e necessario, volendola tenere sotto, batterla et urtarla. E si vede che la si lascia piu vincere da questi, che da quelli che freddamente procedano. E pero sempre, come donna, e amica de' giovani, perche sono meno respettivi, piu feroci e con piu audacia la comandano.

38. He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.