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He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is easy for him to do, since all they ask is not to be oppressed (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
He who believes that new benefits will cause great personages to forget old injuries is deceived (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
As a general thing anyone who is not your friend will advise neutrality while anyone who is your friend will ask you to join him, weapon in hand (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Men are either to be kindly treated, or utterly crushed, since they can revenge lighter injuries, but not graver. Wherefore the injury we do to a man should be of a sort to leave no fear of reprisals (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
But in republics there is more vitality, more hatred, and more desire for revenge. The memory of former freedom simply will not leave the people in peace (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
One ought perhaps not to count Moses, as he was a mere executor of the will of God; he must nevertheless be admired, if only for the grace that made him worthy of speaking to God (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Being feared and not hated go well together, and the prince can always do this if he does not touch the property or the women of his citizens and subjects (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
That defense alone is effectual, sure and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valour (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Without an opportunity, their abilities would have been wasted, and without their abilities, the opportunity would have arisen in vain (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
These opportunities, then, gave these men the chance they needed, and their great abilities made them recognize it (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Those who believe that where great personages are concerned new favors cause old injuries to be forgotten deceive themselves (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
against my will, my fate, A throne unsettled, and an infant state, Bid me defend my realms with all my powers, And guard with these severities my shores (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Thus it will always happen that he who is not your friend will demand your neutrality, whilst he who is your friend will entreat you to declare yourself with arms (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Nothing consumes itself so much as generosity, because while you practice it you're losing the wherewithal to go on practicing it (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Takes us the farther distance from the Old World to something new and revolutionary in human thought. That moral center, however, is hard to find with modern eyes. Locating it requires (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
I say that every prince ought to desire to be considered clement and not cruel. Nevertheless he ought to take care not to misuse this clemency (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Thus the popes, sometimes in zeal for religion, at others moved by their own ambition, were continually calling in new parties and exciting new disturbances (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
For on Cardinal Rohan saying to me that the Italians did not understand war, I replied that the French did not understand politics (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
... the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
The memory of their former freedom will not let them rest; so that the safest course is either to destroy them, or to go and live in them (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
When they depend upon their own resources and can employ force, they seldom fail. Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuous in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Therefore the best fortress is to be found in the love of the people, for although you may have fortresses they will not save you if you are hated by the people (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)