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Merciful Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
- I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.
- A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for, with a very…
- Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have…
- Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that…
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- I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
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- I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock… — Robert Green Ingersoll
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- Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
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- Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent… — Khalil Gibran
- Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole. — Rabindranath Tagore