Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIOne change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
More Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
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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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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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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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Politics have no relation to morals.
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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
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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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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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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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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.
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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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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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