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Letter "N" » Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
«A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.»
«Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot»
«He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.»
«Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.»
«Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.»
«There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.»
«No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.»
«It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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«Hence it comes about that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed.»
«There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt»