Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIHatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
More Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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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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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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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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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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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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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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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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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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Before all else, be armed.
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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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