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.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIMen shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
More Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
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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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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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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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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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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 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 one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
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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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