Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes, Fall Quotes, Arms Quotes

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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A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.

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Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never test them except when you see that they hope to win.

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Never do your enemy a minor injury.

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If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard.

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Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

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Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the ancients wanted their citizens to be trained in every warlike action.

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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

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The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.

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With difficulty he is beaten who can estimate his own forces and those of his enemy.

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A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.

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I hope and hoping feeds my pain I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart I laugh but the laughter does not pass within I burn but the burning makes no mark outside.

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A prince need trouble little about conspiracies when the people are well disposed, but when they are hostile and hold him in hatred, then he must fear everything and everybody.

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Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.

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...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.

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

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It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.

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He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.

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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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