Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIWe cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
More Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
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It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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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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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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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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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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A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
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Politics have no relation to morals.
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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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A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
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