Tag: Niccolo Machiavelli
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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
Niccolo Machiavelli