The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIGod is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
More Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
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War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
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Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
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The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
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This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others.
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So that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
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