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Acquire Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
- A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for…
- The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet…
- ....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.
- 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…
- And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can, they will be…
- the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if…
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- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila
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- I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or… — Edward de Bono
- Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. — Nathaniel Branden
- Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to… — Eli Broad
- As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge. — Jeb Bush
- Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited… — Smedley Butler
- I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the… — Vince Cable
- I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it. — Taylor Caldwell
- Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the… — Alexander Hamilton
- Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower,… — George Fordyce