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Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

«The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.»
«The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.»
«God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli | About: God | Keywords: free will, take away
«I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.»
«Never was anything great achieved without danger»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli | Keywords: achieved, danger
«Politics have no relation to morals.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli | About: Politics | Keywords: morals, relation, relation to
«There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things»
«Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions»
«If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared»
«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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