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| Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes | No. | Quotation | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. | Achievement |
| 2 | Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked. | Cleverness |
| 3 | Fortune is a woman, and therefore friendly to the young, who with audacity command her. | Destiny |
| 4 | He who owes least to fortune is in the strongest position. | Destiny |
| 5 | Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied. | Enthusiasm |
| 6 | God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. | Free Agency |
| 7 | It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who have taken up a prejudice against you, either from envy or from any other cause. | Humility |
| 8 | Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation. | Idealism |
| 9 | If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. | Injury |
| 10 | The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws. | Law |
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