Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLITardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
More Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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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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But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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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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Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate.
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Before all else, be armed.
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