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Avoid Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
- Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants,…
- 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…
- If someone puts up the argument that King Louis gave the Romagna to Pope Alexander, and the kingdom of Naples to Spain, in order to…
- The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is…
- The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and as…
- One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it…
- And it will always happen that he who is not your friend will request your neutrality and he who is your friend will ask you…
- One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to…
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- Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood
- I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at… — Paul Auster
- Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them. — Richard Bach
- I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in and get… — Christian Bale
- Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. — Joey Adams
- My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think… — Martha Beck
- The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused… — Conrad Black
- Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. — William Blake
- If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. — Napoleon Bonaparte