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- One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as…
- You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before…
- Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually;…
- If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and…
- God and nature have thrown all human fortunes into the midst of mankind; and they are thus attainable rather by rapine than by industry, by…
- As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to whoever arranges to…
- So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.
- The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.
- The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go…
- A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for, with a very…
- And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and manifest reason for…
- Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and when the reasons which made…
- It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of…
- It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock;…
- And above all you ought to guard against leading an army to fight which is afraid or which is not confident of victory. For the…
- A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by…
- The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.
- Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have…
- All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to the…
- Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their…
- Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their…
- States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first…
- All the armed prophets conquered; all the unarmed ones perished.
- It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who…
- Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle