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Niccolo Machiavelli
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Biography : Italian diplomat, politician, philosopher, humanist and writer.
Born: 1469 - Died: 1527
Period:
16th century
15th century
Place of birth: Italy
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Niccolo Machiavelli






Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
Niccolo Machiavelli






Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Niccolo Machiavelli






It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Niccolo Machiavelli






It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
Niccolo Machiavelli






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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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
Niccolo Machiavelli






Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli






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