It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIIt is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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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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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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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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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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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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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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