But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIBenefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
More Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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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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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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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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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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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
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