I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIWhosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
More Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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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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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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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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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
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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 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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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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The 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.
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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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