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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An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

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A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.

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Will is wish, and liberty is power.

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And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

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I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.

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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

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When you ask women what's the one thing they wish they had more of, they always say time.

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If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.

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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.

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My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.

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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to add another's advantages or possessions to your own; you are permitted only to wish to be another.

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She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

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I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.

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You aren't what I expected. I wish you were. It'd be so much easier.

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I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

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Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

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