Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."
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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 lead in the introduction of a new order of things."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"Politics have no relation to morals."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"Only those means of security are good are certain are lasting that depend on yourself and your own vigor."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great."
Niccolò Machiavelli
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