In The Quotable Machiavelli, Maurizio Viroli, one of the worlds leading Machiavelli scholars, offers a rich collection of the Florentines most memorable words on a wide range of subjects, including politics, the human condition, religion, love and happiness, antiquity and history, patriotism, and virtue.

Table of Contents

• Dedication
• INTRODUCTION
• CHRONOLOGY
• NOTE ON THE TEXTS
• I. Machiavelli on Himself, His Family, and Friends
• II. Machiavelli Described by His Relatives, Friends, and Lovers
• III. Man and Cosmos
• Devils and Hell
• Fortune
• God's and the Heavens’ Influence on Human Affairs
• God's Mercy
• Good and Evil
• Prophecies
• Purgatory
• Return to Beginnings
• The Universe, Its Hidden Power
• The World and Its Eternity
• IV. The Human Condition
• Antiquity and the Ancients
• Avarice
• Beasts
• Bloodshed
• Compassion
• Concealment
• Confession
• Conscience
• Courage (Animo)
• Cowardice
• Cruelty
• Death
• The Death Penalty
• Deceit
• Decline
• Desire
• Despair
• Discourse
• Disease
• Dishonesty
• The End Result
• Error
• Fault
• Fear
• Flattery
• Fraud
• Glory
• Goals
• The Good and Goodness
• Greatness of Soul
• Growth
• Hatred
• History
• Honesty
• Horror
• Humility
• Imitation
• Infamy
• Ingratitude
• Insolence
• Love
• The Mind
• Miracles
• New Ways, New Continents
• Old Times
• Opportunity
• Order and Disorder
• Passions and Their Remedies
• Patriotism
• Peace
• Prudence
• Punishment
• Rebirth (Renaissance)
• Religion and the Reform of Religions
• Saints
• Science
• Severity
• Sin
• Stupidity
• Suspicion
• Virtue
• Women
• Words
• V. Political Life
• Accusations and Calumnies
• Agrarian Law
• Ambition
• The Aristocracy
• The Army and Soldiers
• Artillery
• Authority
• Cavalry
• Cities
• Citizenship
• Colonies
• Constitution
• Corruption
• Dictatorship
• Disorders
• Empires and Emperors
• Equality
• Errors
• Expansion
• Extraordinary Measures
• Fortresses
• The Founders and Reformers of States
• Gold
• Gonfalonier (Highest Magistrate of the Republic of Florence)
• Government
• Laws
• Liberality
• Liberty and Its Safekeeping
• Ministers
• Mixed Government
• The Multitude
• Opinion, Freedom of
• The People
• Popular Government
• Poverty
• The Prince
• Public Honors
• Republics
• Revolutions and Reforms
• Servitude
• Social Conflicts
• The State
• Tribunes of the People
• Tyranny
• Tyranny and License
• War
• VI. Machiavelli on His Contemporaries
• Alexander VI, Pope
• Giovanpaolo Baglioni
• Cesare Borgia, the Duke Valentino
• Ferdinand of Aragon, King of Spain
• Italian Princes
• Julius II, Pope
• Lorenzo de’ Medici (the Magnificent)
• Lorenzo de’ Medici, Duke of Urbino
• Louis XII, King of France
• Maximilian I, Emperor of Germany
• Girolamo Savonarola (Friar)
• Caterina Sforza, Countess of Forlì
• Piero Soderini
• VII. Past and Present
• Achilles
• Agathocles of Syracuse
• Alexander the Great
• Aristotle
• Athens and Sparta
• Cicero
• Constantinople
• Cyrus, King of Persia
• Dante Alighieri
• King David (Old Testament)
• Cosimo de’ Medici
• Giovanni de’ Medici
• Florence
• France and the French
• Germany and the German Free Cities
• Italy
• Julius Caesar
• Livy (Roman Historian)
• Moses
• Plutarch
• Rome and the Roman People
• Romulus
• Turks and the Turkish Empire
• Venice
• SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
• CREDITS