Quotes about Niccolo Machiavelli

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily...

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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

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Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than...

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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less...

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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it...

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Never was anything great achieved without danger.

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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries...

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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack,...

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