“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli · Wisdom quote

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are. — Niccolò Machiavelli quote card
Political philosopher · 1469 – 1527

Niccolò Machiavelli was a Florentine diplomat and writer whose treatise The Prince analysed power with unsentimental realism. Long read as a manual of cunning statecraft, his works also include discourses defending republican government.

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