Author: Niccolò Machiavelli

Cited by

• Alan Lawrence Sitomer (2)
  • IN: Noble Warrier (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
    FROM: The Prince, (1532), Book, Italy
  • IN: Noble Warrior (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
    FROM: The Prince, (1532), Book, Italy
• William C. Dietz (2)
  • IN: Andromeda's Choice (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Whence it is to be noted that a prince occupying a new state should see to it that he commit all his acts of cruelty at once so as not to be obliged to return to them everyday, and thus, by abstaining from repeating them, he will be able to make men feel secure...
    FROM: The Prince, (1532), Book, Italy
  • IN: Andromeda's Fall (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Here the question arises; whether it is better to be loved than feared or feared than loved. The answer is that it would be desirable to be both but, since that is difficult, it is much safer to be feared..
    FROM: The Prince, (1532), Book, Italy
• Sarah Dunant (1)
  • IN: In the Name of the Family (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: As an eagle may fly carrying a tortoise in his mouth, then drop it to the ground so that the fall smashes open its shell...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Ryan David Jahn (1)
  • IN: The Breakout (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
    FROM: The Prince, (1532), Essay, Italy
• John Smolens (1)
  • IN: The Anarchist (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Generally, men judge by the eye rather than the hand, for all men can see a thing, but few come close enough to touch it. All men will see what you seem to be; only a few will know what you are.
    FROM: The Prince, (1532), Book, Italy
• Allison Brennan (1)
  • IN: Sudden Death (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
    FROM: The Prince, (1532), Book, Italy
• Andrew Pepper (1)
  • IN: The Last Days of Newgate (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: [T]he gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.
    FROM: The Prince, (1532), Book, Italy
• Michael Norman (1)
  • IN: The Commission (None) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Yet the way men live is so far removed from the way they ought to live that anyone who abandons what is for what should be pursues his downfall rather than his preservation; for a man who strives after goodness in all his acts is sure to come to ruin, since there are so many men who are not good.
    FROM: The Prince, (1532), Book, Italy
• Peter May (1)
  • IN: Cast Iron (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer
    FROM: The Prince, (1532), Book, Italy
• Amara Lakhous (1)
  • IN: Divorce Islamic Style (2010) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Since love and fear can scarcely exist together, if we must choose between them, it is much safer to be feared than loved.
    FROM: The Prince, (1532), Book, Italy
• Lionel Shriver (1)
  • IN: A Perfectly Good Family (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A son could bear complacently the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive to despair.
    FROM: The Prince, (1532), Book, Italy