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Power Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
- If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and…
- ....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one…
- ....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.
- Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself; for that power is produced by him either through craft or force; and both…
- Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or…
- He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
- Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.
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