Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIPrinces and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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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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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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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Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
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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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Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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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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Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
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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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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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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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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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