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1 For, as King Ferrando was wont to say, men often behave like certain of the smaller birds, which are so intent on the prey to which nature incites them, that they discern not the eagle hovering overhead for their destruction.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus LiviusBy Niccolo Machiavelli ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XL.
2 This manner of life, therefore, seems to have made the world feebler, and to have given it over as a prey to wicked men to deal with as they please; since the mass of mankind, in the hope of being received into Paradise, think more how to bear injuries than how to avenge them.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus LiviusBy Niccolo Machiavelli ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II.
3 Lakes, and mountains, and the most inaccessible strongholds, where valiant defenders are wanting, become no better than the level plain; and money, so far from being a safeguard, is more likely to leave you a prey to your enemy; since nothing can be falser than the vulgar opinion which affirms it to be the sinews of war.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus LiviusBy Niccolo Machiavelli ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X.
4 For it was essential for Rome that almost at the outset of her career, a ruler should be found to lay the foundations of her civil life; but, after that had been done, it was necessary that her rulers should return to the virtues of Romulus, since otherwise the city must have grown feeble, and become a prey to her neighbours.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus LiviusBy Niccolo Machiavelli ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX.
5 No worse calamity can befall a prince or commonwealth than to be reduced to such straits that they can neither accept peace nor support war; as is the case with those whom it would ruin to conclude peace on the terms offered, while war obliges them either to yield themselves a spoil to their allies, or remain a prey to their foes.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus LiviusBy Niccolo Machiavelli ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII.