The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
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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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
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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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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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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 promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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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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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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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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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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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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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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