Niccolo Machiavelli

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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.



He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.



If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.



There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.



There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others.



War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.



War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.






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58 quotes and quotations by Niccolo Machiavelli.
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli « Hungry Like the Woolf
Niccolo Machiavelli is widely known for this work in particular, a work which he wrote in an effort to gain the favor of the then-ruling Medici family. The same Medici who had him tortured and imprisoned. Machiavelli did, at least, ...
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Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-05-03 ? 1527-06-21). A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. I believe that it is possible for one to...
100 percent of ex-NYPD commish/felons agree: no mosque - Capitol ...
Niccolo Machiavelli. July 23, 2010, 9:41 PM. I'd love to take you out to dinner Allen. Hang in there. #8. For Common Sense. July 23, 2010, 11:09 PM. How does this guy in jail get access to a computer? Or is he at the Waldorf? ...
Who Was Niccolò Machiavelli? by Murray N. Rothbard
Niccolò Machiavelli was born in Florence, to a moderately well-off Tuscan noble family. His personal preference was clearly for the old oligarchic republic rather than for the signori,[1] and in 1494, when the republicans kicked the ...


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