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.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIThere 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.
More Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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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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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
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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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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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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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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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A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
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When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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