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Better Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
- 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;…
- No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. To know how to recognize…
- Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in a temperate manner…
- To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.
- It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.
- 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…
- It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.
- Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.
- It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
- Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
- Is it better to be loved or feared?
- From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like…
- From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered…
- I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be…
- For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters…
- it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.
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