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Evil Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
- Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
- So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to…
- In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend;…
- Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke, done out of…
- 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…
- Thus it happens in matters of state; for knowing afar off (which it is only given a prudent man to do) the evils that are…
- Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
- It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they…
- For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
- Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.
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- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
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- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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