Niccolo Machiavelli

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Born: May 3, 1469

Died: June 21, 1527

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Writer

Biography: Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian historian, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. A founder of modern political science, he was a diplomat, political philosopher, playwright, and a civil servant of the Florentine Republic. He also wrote comedies, carnival songs, and poetry.

Niccolo Machiavelli

“It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.”

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“It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.”

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“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.”

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“It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.”

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“Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.”

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“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.”

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“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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“Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.”

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“Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.”

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“Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.”

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“Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.”

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“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”

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“No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.”

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“Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.”

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