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Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Niccolo Machiavelli
Age: 58 †
Born: 1469
Born: May 3
Died: 1527
Died: June 22
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The prince who relies upon their words, without having otherwise provided for his security, is ruined for friendships that are won by awards, and not by greatness and nobility of soul, although deserved, yet are not real, and cannot be depended upon in time of adversity.
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Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.
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For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part of the people.
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Is it better to be loved or feared?
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Laa shay'a waqi'un moutlaq bale kouloun moumkine...We work in the Dark, to serve the Light.
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Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.
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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
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So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.
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Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and when the reasons which made him bind himself no longer exist. If men were all good, this precept would not be a good one but as they are bad, and would not observe their faith with you, so you are not bound to keep faith with them.
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The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.
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The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.
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The ends justifies the means.
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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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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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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure
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Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.
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When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.
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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 be, few really know what you are.
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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.
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