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The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
A son can bear with composure the death of his father, but the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Wise men say, and not without reason, that whoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
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 (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
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 (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
A soldier ought to consider peace only as a breathing - spell, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute, military plans (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manner that laws may be maintained (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
This is most true, and all history bears testimony to it, that men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her, - they may weave her web, but they cannot break it (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in such a way that it does not become known, or, if it does become known, that you have a ready and quick defense (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Men are so simple, and yield so much to necessity, that he who will deceive will always find him who will lend himself to be deceived (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
There are many who think a wise prince ought, when he has the chance, to foment astutely some enmity, so that by suppressing it he will augment his greatness (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Because fear and ove can hardly co exist together, if we must chose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Set down among these lice, this is how I keep the mold from my brain and find release from Fortune's malice. I am content to have her beat me down this way to see if she won't become ashamed (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is easy to persuade them of a thing, it is hard to fix them in that persuasion (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)