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.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIA prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
More Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
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So that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
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To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
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There 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.
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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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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This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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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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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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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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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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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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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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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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