Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

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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Politics have no relation to morals.
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Relation
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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Breath Execute Executem Furnish Leisure Military Plan Prince War Study
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
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Generous heavy One
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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Command Know Must Wish
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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Safer Since Since Fear Together Two Must
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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Enterprise Execution Likely More No Ripe
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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Must
Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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All Detail Less Offense Once Severities Suddenness
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Cleaner Escape Hourglass More Sand Through

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