Never was anything great achieved without danger.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLISo that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
More Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
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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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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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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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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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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So that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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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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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
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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 more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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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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A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man.
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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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