Never was anything great achieved without danger.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIWhosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
More Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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Before all else, be armed.
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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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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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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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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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
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Men 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.
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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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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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