Machiavel

Noun

Meaning

A person who follows the principles laid down by Niccolò Machiavelli.

A schemer or intriguer.

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. Francis Bacon

Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man. Robert Burton

(About Cesare Borgia) What cruelties were not the result of his? Who could count all his crimes? Such was the man that Machiavel prefers to all the great geniuses of his time, and to the heroes of antiquity, and of which he finds the life and action make a good example for those that fortune favors. Frederick II of Prussia

Every Country hath its Machiavel. Thomas Browne

Machiavel expresses the cynical view that power is amoral, saying "I count religion but a childish toy,/And hold there is no sin but ignorance." Source: Internet

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