The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIA prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
More Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
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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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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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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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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
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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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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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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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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
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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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