Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes & Sayings

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Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

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A son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair

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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 ability to execute, military plans.

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