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Famous Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
“Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.”
“It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men.”
“Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.”
“A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.”
“The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.”
“The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace.”
“He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.”
“There is nothing so difficult or so dangerous as to undertake to change the order of things.”
“With difficulty he is beaten who can estimate his own forces and those of his enemy.”
“The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.”
“The prince must be a lion, but he must also know how to play the fox.”
“One arises from a low to a high station more often by using fraud instead of force.”
“It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.”
“Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself.”
“Cruelties should be committed all at once.”
“For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.”