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Niccolò Machiavelli

The Prince

  • b7107009067citeerde uit8 jaar geleden
    you wish to please me, and to bring success and honour to yourself, do right and study, because others will help you if you help yourself."
  • David Alejandrociteerde uit8 jaar geleden
    Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be—and are ruined
  • Haffizah Yasminaciteerde uit7 jaar geleden
    Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be—and are ruined
  • CENDRAWATIciteerde uit10 jaar geleden
    For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new. This lukewarm temper arises partly from the fear of adversaries who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who will never admit the merit of anything new, until they have seen it proved by the event.
  • Bram Van Langenciteerde uit16 uur geleden
    in the be­gin­ning of the mal­ady it is easy to cure but dif­fi­cult to de­tect, but in the course of time, not hav­ing been either de­tec­ted or treated in the be­gin­ning, it be­comes easy to de­tect but dif­fi­cult to cure.
  • Bram Van Langenciteerde uit16 uur geleden
    to turn him out the first time it only needed Lodovico’s own forces; be­cause those who had opened the gates to him, find­ing them­selves de­ceived in their hopes of fu­ture be­ne­fit, would not en­dure the ill-treat­ment of the new prince.
  • Bram Van Langenciteerde uit17 uur geleden
    an able states­man out of work, like a huge whale, will en­deav­our to over­turn the ship un­less he has an empty cask to play with.”
  • HIBA Bfciteerde uit6 dagen geleden
    that he who is the cause of an­other be­com­ing power­ful is ruined; be­cause that pre­dom­in­ancy has been brought about either by as­tute­ness or else by force, and both are dis­trus­ted by him who has been raised to power
  • HIBA Bfciteerde uit6 dagen geleden
    The wish to ac­quire is in truth very nat­ural and com­mon, and men al­ways do so when they can, and for this they will be praised not blamed; but when they can­not do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame
  • HIBA Bfciteerde uit6 dagen geleden
    Upon this, one has to re­mark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, be­cause they can avenge them­selves of lighter in­jur­ies, of more ser­i­ous ones they can­not; there­fore the in­jury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of re­venge.
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