Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes, Always Wrong Quotes

Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

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In our own days we have seen no princes accomplish great results save those who have been accounted miserly.

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And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and manifest reason for it; but above all he must abstain from taking the property of others, for men forget more easily the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.

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If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

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Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the goods of others, whereas causes for taking life are rarer and more quickly destroyed.

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Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

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Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.

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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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A prince must not have any objective nor any thought, nor take up any art, other than the art of war and its ordering and discipline; because it is the only art that pertains to him who commands. And it is of such virtue that not only does it maintain those who were born princes, but many times makes men rise to that rank from private station.

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One arises from a low to a high station more often by using fraud instead of force.

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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

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By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and they are frequently influenced by great hopes and brave promises.

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He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

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

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For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part of the people.

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For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying

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But in Republics there is a stronger vitality, a fiercer hatred, a keener thirst for revenge. The memory of their former freedom will not let them rest; so that the safest course is either to destroy them, or to go and live in them.

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Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.

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To keep your actions and your plans secret always has been a very good thing . .. Marcus Crassus said to one who asked him when he was going to move the army: 'Do you believe that you will be the only one not to hear the trumpet?

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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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