It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIIt is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIPrinces and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIPolitics have no relation to morals.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLINever was anything great achieved without danger.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIThe 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.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIThere 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.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIOne change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIA return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLITardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIThis first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIBenefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIThe more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIWhere the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIMen ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIMen rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIWe cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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