Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Son Quotes

One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away.

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

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Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.

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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

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In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

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Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

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There is moderation in everything.

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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

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Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.

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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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The patient must minister to himself

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I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

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The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.

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