Niccolò Machiavelli Quote

And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in such a way that it does not become known, or, if it does become known, that you have a ready and quick defence.


'Advice to Raffaello Girolami when he went as Ambassador to the Emperor' (October 1522)


And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in such a way that it does not become known, or, if it does become known,...

And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in such a way that it does not become known, or, if it does become known,...

And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in such a way that it does not become known, or, if it does become known,...

And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in such a way that it does not become known, or, if it does become known,...