It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIBenefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
More Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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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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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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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
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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 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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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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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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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
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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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The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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