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Needs Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
- The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and as…
- And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I…
- A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and…
- It follows that acceleration in the rate of change will result in an increasing need for reorganization. Reorganization is usually feared, because it means disturbance…
- 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…
- Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed,…
- For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.
- If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
- Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
- The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
- Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready…
- People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is…
- For it must be noted, that men must either be caressed or else annihilated; they will revenge themselves for small injuries, but cannot do so…
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