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Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the ancients wanted their citizens to be trained in every warlike action.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Art, War, Fighting

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Change has no constituency.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

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Change, Philosophical, Moving Forward

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The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Mistake, Men, Wish

"The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1532.

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Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

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Men, Wicked, Made

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Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Art, War, Majesty

Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.73, FastPencil Inc

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Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Fear, Punishment, Dread

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Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?

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Plato, Half, Etc

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Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force.

Niccolo Machiavelli

War, Enemy, Overcoming

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It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men, Weather, Common

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A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Art, War, Archer

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One must consider the final result

Niccolo Machiavelli

Finals, Results, Ends Justify The Means

Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.14, Penguin

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It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.

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Wise, Men, Opinion

Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.56, FastPencil Inc

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He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

Niccolo Machiavelli

War, Thieves, Vicious

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When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Art, War, Men

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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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Eye, Men, Hands

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So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.

Niccolo Machiavelli

War, Evil, Able

NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI (1947). “THE PRINCE”

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For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying

Niccolo Machiavelli

Way, Destroying

Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Moore (2010). “Machiavelli, More & Luther”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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A multitude is strong while it holds together, but so soon as each of those who compose it begins ro think of his own private danger, it becomes weak and contemptible.

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Strong, Thinking, Together

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Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them.

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Peace, War, Quality

Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.73, FastPencil Inc

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How laudable it is for a prince to keep good faith and live with integrity, and not with astuteness, every one knows. Still the experience of our times shows those princes to have done great things who have had little regard for good faith, and have been able by astuteness to confuse men's brains, and who have ultimately overcome those who have made loyalty their foundation.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Loyalty, Art, Integrity

Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.55, Knickerbocker Classics

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Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.

Niccolo Machiavelli

War, Men, Order

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Cruelties should be committed all at once.

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Should, Cruelty, Committed

Gerald Lee Ratliff, Niccolo Machiavelli (1986). “Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince”, p.48, Barron's Educational Series

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The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.

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War, People, Affection

"The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1513.

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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

Men, Acting, Way

Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.274, Penguin

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Born: May 3, 1469
Died: June 21, 1527
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