Politics have no relation to morals.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIHatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
More Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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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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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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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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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
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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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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others.
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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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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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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 wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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