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For Time, driving all things before it, may bring with it evil as well as good.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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The people, as Cicero says, may be ignorant, but they can recognize the truth and will readily yield when some trustworthy man explains it to them.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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For the friendships which we buy with a price, and do not gain by greatness and nobility of character, though they be fairly earned are not made good, but fail us when we have occasion to use them.
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money
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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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. Wherefore, matters should be so ordered that when men no longer believe of their own accord, they may be compelled to believe by force.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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Yet the way men live is so far removed from the way they ought to live that anyone who abandons what is for what should be pursues his downfall rather than his preservation;
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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Nevertheless, that our freewill may not be altogether extinguished, I think it may be true that fortune is the ruler of half our actions, but that she allows the other half or a little less to be governed by us.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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The Romans recognized potential difficulties in advance and always remedied them in time. They never let problems develop just so they could escape a war, for they knew that such wars cannot be avoided, only postponed to the advantage of others.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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it is far better to earn the confidence of the people than to rely on fortresses.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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He said that it always struck him with surprise that while men in buying an earthen or glass vase would sound it first to learn if it were good, yet in choosing a wife they were content with only looking at her.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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For a Monarchy readily becomes a Tyranny, an Aristocracy an Oligarchy, while a Democracy tends to degenerate into Anarchy. So that if the founder of a State should establish any one of these three forms of Government, he establishes it for a short time only, since no precaution he may take can prevent it from sliding into its contrary, by reason of the close resemblance which, in this case, the virtue bears to the vice.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times--letting pass infinite other examples--a fragment of an ancient statue has been bought at high price because someone wants to have it near oneself, to honor his house with it, and to be able to have it imitated by those who delight in that art, and how the latter then strive with all industry to represent it in all their works; and seeing, on the other hand, that th..
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history
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classics
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m ymkn ltnbw' b@ ymkn `lj@ bshwl@, 'm dh ntZrn ly' n tdhmn lmkhTr, fsySbH l`lj mt'khran `n mw`dh wtstS`y l`l@
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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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.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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But while it was their opportunities that made these men fortunate, it was their own merit that enabled them to recognize these opportunities and turn them to account, to the glory and prosperity of their country.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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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.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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And what physicians say about consumptive illnesses is applicable here: that at the beginning, such an illness is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure.
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politics
problems
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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And let it here be noted that men are either to be kindly treated, or utterly crushed, since they can revenge lighter injuries, but not graver.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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A prince need take little account of conspiracies if the people are disposed in his favor.
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hatred
loved
respect
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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men have less scruple in offending one who is beloved than one who is feared, for love is preserved by the link of obligation, which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment, which never fails.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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For on Cardinal Rohan saying to me that the Italians did not understand war, I replied that the French did not understand politics.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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The Swiss are well armed and very free.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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This is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life and children when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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A prince ought to have two fears one from within on account of his subjects the other from without on account of external powers. From the latter he is defended by being well armed and having good allies and if he is well armed he will have good friends and affairs will always remain quiet within when they are quiet without unless they should have been already disturbed by conspiracy and even should affairs outside be disturbed if he has ca..
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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Injuries, therefore, should be inflicted all at once, that their ill savour being less lasting may the less offend; whereas, benefits should be conferred little by little, that so they may be more fully relished.
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politics
shrewdness
political-philosophy
strategy
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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It is a common fault not to anticipate storms when the sea is calm.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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And he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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He, therefore, who acquires such a State, if he mean to keep it, must see to two things; first, that the blood of the ancient line of Princes be destroyed; second, that no change be made in respect of laws or taxes; for in this way the newly acquired State speedily becomes incorporated with the hereditary.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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n nSyH@ lmsd@ l~ l'myr Gyr lHkym ln tjdy, l dh kn hdh l'myr Gyr lHkym qd tkhl~ `n dhth wsm nfsh lrdl ysyTr `lyh tmman fy kl l'mwr, wkn hd lrjl dh Hkm@ jyd@, wfy hdhh lHl@ skwn Hkmh SlHan. lkn hdh l'mr l yTwl, l'n hdh lHkm syjrdh mn lwly@.
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نيكولا ميكيافيلي Niccolò Machiavelli |
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Thus it is well to seem merciful faithful humane religious and upright and also to be so but the mind should remain so balanced that were it needful not to be so you should be able and know how to change to the contrary.
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sovereignty
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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The wish to acquire is no doubt a natural and common sentiment, and when men attempt things within their power, they will always be praised rather than blamed. But when they persist in attempts that are beyond their power, mishaps and blame ensue.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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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.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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Whence we may draw the general axiom, which never or rarely errs, that he who is the cause of another's greatness is himself undone, since he must work either by address or force, each of which excites distrust in the person raised to power.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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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.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather.
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machiavelli
machiavellian
the-prince
weather
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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1186c00
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It is better to be feared than to be loved, if you can not be both
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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587d321
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Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be--and are ruined.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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It is truly natural and ordinary thing to desire gain; and when those who can succeed attempt it, they will always be praised and not blamed. But if they cannot succeed, yet try anyway, they are guilty of error and are blameworthy.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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What remains to be done must be done by you; since in order not to deprive us of our free will and such share of glory as belongs to us, God will not do everything himself.
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free-will
god
exultation
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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The Prince who establishes himself in a Province whose laws and language differ from those of his own people, ought also to make himself the head and protector of his feebler neighbours, and endeavour to weaken the stronger, and must see that by no accident shall any other stranger as powerful as himself find an entrance there. For it will always happen that some such person will be called in by those of the Province who are discontented ei..
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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Moreover, a Republic trusting to her own forces, is with greater difficulty than one which relies on foreign arms brought to yield obedience to a single citizen. Rome and Sparta remained for ages armed and free. The Swiss are at once the best armed and the freest people in the world.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |
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Men injure either from fear or hatred.
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Niccolò Machiavelli |