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Less 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;…
- You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and…
- 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…
- Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain…
- A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and…
- Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
- Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop,…
- I shall always esteem it not much to live in a city where the laws do less than men, because that fatherland is desirable where…
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