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Longer Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
- A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten…
- Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and when the reasons which made…
- 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…
- 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…
- A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are…
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- To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. — Saint Augustine
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- You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. — David Bailey
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- Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. — Russell Baker
- American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin
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- If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason. — Alan Ball
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