Quotes with machiavelli

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  • Machiavelli The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
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    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Machiavelli The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
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    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Machiavelli The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
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  • Machiavelli The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Machiavelli 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Machiavelli There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • 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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    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Machiavelli War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
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  • Machiavelli Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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