It is enough to ask somebody for his weapons without saying 'I want to kill you with them', because when you have his weapons in hand, you can satisfy your desire.


Book 1, Ch 44 (as translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella) - Discourses on Livy (1517)

Niccolò Machiavelli Quotes

It is enough to ask somebody for his weapons without saying 'I want to kill you with them', because when you have his weapons in hand, you can...

It is enough to ask somebody for his weapons without saying 'I want to kill you with them', because when you have his weapons in hand, you can...

It is enough to ask somebody for his weapons without saying 'I want to kill you with them', because when you have his weapons in hand, you can...

It is enough to ask somebody for his weapons without saying 'I want to kill you with them', because when you have his weapons in hand, you can...