So that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIIt is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
More Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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Politics have no relation to morals.
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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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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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When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
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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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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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