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" The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. "

Niccolo Machiavelli

Crazy

Love

Feel

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Men

First

" 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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Wish

Want

" He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command. "

" War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. "

" Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot. "

" The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. "

" It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles. "

" Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. "

" Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others. "

" A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. "

" It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. "

" The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. "

" Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more. "

Niccolo Machiavelli

May

Give

" Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. "

" God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. "

" 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. "

" Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society. "

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Dangerous

Far

" Never was anything great achieved without danger. "

" Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil. "

" One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others. "