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Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Niccolo Machiavelli
Age: 58 †
Born: 1469
Born: May 3
Died: 1527
Died: June 22
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No one should therefore fear that he cannot accomplish what others have accomplished, for, men are born, live, and die in quite the same way they always have.
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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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Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
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To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.
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It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state of order again for the nature of mundane affairs not allowing them to continue in an even course, when they have arrived at their greatest perfection, they soon begin to decline.
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A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.
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it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.
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He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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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.
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Human beings remain constant in their methods of conduct.
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It is the duty of a man of honor to teach others the good which he has not been able to do himself because of the malignity of the times, that this good finally can be done by another more loved in heaven.
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