《君主论》经典语录：英文原文与中文翻译
The Prince
从尼可罗·马基雅维利的《君主论》中选出的15句经典语录，英文原文下附中文翻译。每一句都直接摘自原书。整本书可以免费阅读，配有翻译、朗读和词典。
Returning to the question of being feared or loved, I come to the conclusion that, men loving according to their own will and fearing according to that of the prince, a wise prince should establish himself on that which is in his own control and not in that of others; he must endeavour only to avoid hatred, as is noted.
回到被人畏惧还是被人爱戴的问题，我的结论是：人们爱戴是凭自己的意愿，畏惧则是凭君主的意愿，所以明智的君主应当立足于自己的掌控之物，而不是他人的掌控之物；他只需竭力避免被人憎恨，如前所述。
出自“CHAPTER XVII. CONCERNING CRUELTY AND CLEMENCY, AND WHETHER IT IS BETTER TO BE LOVED THAN FEARED”
Never let any Government imagine that it can choose perfectly safe courses; rather let it expect to have to take very doubtful ones, because it is found in ordinary affairs that one never seeks to avoid one trouble without running into another; but prudence consists in knowing how to distinguish the character of troubles, and for choice to take the lesser evil.
绝不要让任何政府以为它可以选择完全安全的道路；相反，它应当预料到不得不走十分可疑的道路，因为在寻常事务中可以发现，人从来不会避开一桩麻烦而不陷入另一桩麻烦；但审慎在于懂得辨别麻烦的性质，并选择较小的恶。
出自“CHAPTER XXI. HOW A PRINCE SHOULD CONDUCT HIMSELF SO AS TO GAIN RENOWN”
Nevertheless he ought to be slow to believe and to act, nor should he himself show fear, but proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence may not make him incautious and too much distrust render him intolerable.
然而他应当不轻信、不轻动，也不应自己显出恐惧，而应以节制的方式行事，兼具审慎与仁厚，以免过分自信使他轻率，过分猜疑使他令人难以忍受。
出自“CHAPTER XVII. CONCERNING CRUELTY AND CLEMENCY, AND WHETHER IT IS BETTER TO BE LOVED THAN FEARED”
All states, all powers, that have held and hold rule over men have been and are either republics or principalities.
一切国家、一切政权，凡曾经和现在统治人的，过去和现在要么是共和国，要么是君主国。
I wish to demonstrate further the infelicity of these arms. The mercenary captains are either capable men or they are not; if they are, you cannot trust them, because they always aspire to their own greatness, either by oppressing you, who are their master, or others contrary to your intentions; but if the captain is not skilful, you are ruined in the usual way.
我还想进一步说明这种军队的不幸。雇佣军的首领要么能干，要么不能干；如果他能干，你就不能信任他，因为他总是追求自己的伟大，要么压迫你，你是他的主人，要么违背你的意图压迫别人；但如果首领不精明，你照例会被毁掉。
出自“CHAPTER XII. HOW MANY KINDS OF SOLDIERY THERE ARE, AND CONCERNING MERCENARIES”
One prince[5] of the present time, whom it is not well to name, never preaches anything else but peace and good faith, and to both he is most hostile, and either, if he had kept it, would have deprived him of reputation and kingdom many a time.
当今有一位君主[5]，不便指名道姓，他除了和平与信义之外从不宣扬别的，而对这两者他都极为敌视，而且这两者中任何一项，如果他遵守了，都曾多次使他丧失声誉和王国。
出自“CHAPTER XVIII.[1] CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH PRINCES SHOULD KEEP FAITH”
Further, he ought to entertain the people with festivals and spectacles at convenient seasons of the year; and as every city is divided into guilds or into societies,[1] he ought to hold such bodies in esteem, and associate with them sometimes, and show himself an example of courtesy and liberality; nevertheless, always maintaining the majesty of his rank, for this he must never consent to abate in anything.
此外，他应当在一年中适当的时节用节庆和表演娱乐人民；既然每座城市都分为行会或团体[1]，他就应当尊重这些团体，有时与它们交往，并表现出谦恭与慷慨的榜样；然而始终要维持他身份的威严，因为在这一点上他绝不能同意在任何事情上有所减损。
出自“CHAPTER XXI. HOW A PRINCE SHOULD CONDUCT HIMSELF SO AS TO GAIN RENOWN”
Those who strive to obtain the good graces of a prince are accustomed to come before him with such things as they hold most precious, or in which they see him take most delight; whence one often sees horses, arms, cloth of gold, precious stones, and similar ornaments presented to princes, worthy of their greatness.
那些竭力博取君主恩宠的人，习惯于带着他们最珍视、或他们认为君主最喜爱的东西来到他面前；因此人们常常看到献给君主的是马匹、武器、金布、宝石以及类似的饰物，与他们的伟大相称。
出自“DEDICATION”
Such dominions thus acquired are either accustomed to live under a prince, or to live in freedom; and are acquired either by the arms of the prince himself, or of others, or else by fortune or by ability.
这样获得的领地，要么习惯于生活在君主之下，要么习惯于生活在自由之中；而获得它们，要么靠君主自己的军队，要么靠他人的军队，要么靠运气，要么靠能力。
I will leave his other actions alone, as they were all alike, and they all succeeded, for the shortness of his life did not let him experience the contrary; but if circumstances had arisen which required him to go cautiously, his ruin would have followed, because he would never have deviated from those ways to which nature inclined him.
他的其他行动我就不谈了，因为它们全都如出一辙，而且全都成功，因为他寿命短促，没有让他经历相反的情况；但如果出现需要他谨慎行事的情况，他的毁灭就会随之而来，因为他绝不会偏离天性使他倾向的那些道路。
出自“CHAPTER XXV. WHAT FORTUNE CAN EFFECT IN HUMAN AFFAIRS AND HOW TO WITHSTAND HER”
When these things are remembered no one will marvel at the ease with which Alexander held the Empire of Asia, or at the difficulties which others have had to keep an acquisition, such as Pyrrhus and many more; this is not occasioned by the little or abundance of ability in the conqueror, but by the want of uniformity in the subject state.
记住这些事情，就没有人会惊讶于亚历山大如此轻易地保有亚洲帝国，或惊讶于别人如皮洛士以及许多人要保住所得有多么困难；这不是由于征服者能力小或能力大，而是由于被征服国家缺乏一致性。
出自“CHAPTER IV. WHY THE KINGDOM OF DARIUS, CONQUERED BY ALEXANDER, DID NOT REBEL AGAINST THE SUCCESSORS OF ALEXANDER AT HIS DEATH”
The Florentines, being entirely without arms, sent ten thousand Frenchmen to take Pisa, whereby they ran more danger than at any other time of their troubles.
佛罗伦萨人完全没有军队，便派了一万名法国人去夺取比萨，由此他们遭遇的危险比他们历次麻烦中的任何时候都大。
出自“CHAPTER XIII. CONCERNING AUXILIARIES, MIXED SOLDIERY, AND ONE’S OWN”
The Emperor of Constantinople,[2] to oppose his neighbours, sent ten thousand Turks into Greece, who, on the war being finished, were not willing to quit; this was the beginning of the servitude of Greece to the infidels.
君士坦丁堡的皇帝[2]为了对抗邻邦，把一万名土耳其人派进希腊，战争结束后，这些人不愿离开；这就是希腊沦为异教徒奴役的开端。
出自“CHAPTER XIII. CONCERNING AUXILIARIES, MIXED SOLDIERY, AND ONE’S OWN”
Principalities are either hereditary, in which the family has been long established; or they are new.
君主国要么是世袭的，即家族长期居于统治地位；要么是新的。
I will leave out all discussion on republics, inasmuch as in another place I have written of them at length, and will address myself only to principalities. In doing so I will keep to the order indicated above, and discuss how such principalities are to be ruled and preserved.
我将略去关于共和国的一切讨论，因为我在别处已对它们作了详尽论述，我只谈君主国。这样做时，我将遵循上面指出的顺序，讨论这样的君主国应当如何统治和保全。
出自“CHAPTER II. CONCERNING HEREDITARY PRINCIPALITIES”
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