Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes, Fear Quotes, Wish Quotes

From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

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In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.

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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

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The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.

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Every little advantage is of great moment when men have to come to blows.

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....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.

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The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

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To know well the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to know well the nature of princes one must be of the people.

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Ability and perseverance are the weapons of weakness.

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Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.

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The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.

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Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.

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He who builds on the people, builds on the mud

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Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.

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Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.

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as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure

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Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

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A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.

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Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance.

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For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is easy to persuade them of a thing, it is hard to fix them in that persuasion

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