"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are." ― Niccolo Machiavelli |
"Never was anything great achieved without danger."
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"Ever attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."
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"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
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"Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration."
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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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"There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you."
― Niccolo Machiavelli |
"Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived." ― Niccolo Machiavelli |
"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."
― Niccolo Machiavelli |
"Appear as you may wish to be."
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"It is better to act and repent than not to act and regret"
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"Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear."
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"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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"How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation."
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"A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways." ― Niccolo Machiavelli |
"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."
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"The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present."
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