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Difficult Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
- 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…
- And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as…
- Besides what has been said, people are fickle by nature; and it is a simple to convince them of something but difficult to hold them…
- It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people…
- There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things.....…
- 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…
- Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be…
- My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them…
- as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect,…
- 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…
- It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success,…
- It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than…
- There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of…
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