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Time Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
- No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. To know how to recognize…
- Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is…
- As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to whoever arranges to…
- And if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the experience of the…
- I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set about it is…
- The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go…
- Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have…
- 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…
- Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke, done out of…
- And it will always happen that he who is not your friend will request your neutrality and he who is your friend will ask you…
- The prince who relies upon their words, without having otherwise provided for his security, is ruined; for friendships that are won by awards, and not…
- The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
- War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes…
- 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,…
- Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence…
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