Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: May 3, 1469 - June 21, 1527
Birthday: May 3
Death: June 21
When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty clothes of everyday, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the antique courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity, reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death; I pass indeed into their world.
source: "The Prince". Political treatise by Niccolo Machiavelli, 1532.
topic: Home, Clothes, Space, Robes, Muddy, Forget The World
