Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLISo that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
More Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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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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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
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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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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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