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Say 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.
- One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work…
- 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…
- Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.
- Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
- as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect,…
- 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…
- One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond…
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