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Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli

"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied."
By Niccolo Machiavelli
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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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"War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage."
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"He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss."
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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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"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."
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"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others."
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"War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel."
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"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."
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"It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved."
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"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
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"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the le"
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"Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suf"
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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 abil"
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"God creates men, but they choose each other."
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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 trou"
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"Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their"
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"There are three classes of intellects one which comprehends by itself another which appreciates what others comprehend and a thi"
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"A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization an"
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"He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest l"
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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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"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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"There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speak"
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"Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to b"
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"When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content."
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