QUOTES by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.
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The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.
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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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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.
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Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved
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…he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.
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How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.
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Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.
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I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.
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There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.
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