The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIThe 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.
More Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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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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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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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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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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Benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
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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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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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A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man.
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This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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