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Letter "N" » Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
«When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred...»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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Confidence
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commence, commenced, commences, cowardice, disarm, disarmed, disarming, disarms, distrust, distrusts, generate, generating, offend
«Ability and perseverance are the weapons of weakness.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
«Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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Appearance,
Gifts,
Men
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appearances, general, General A, General of the, General The, gift, in general, judge, penetration, The Gift
«States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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Nations
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bad weather, first born, kills, rapidly, roots, state of nature
«I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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Prudence
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abstain, abstaining, abstains, cautious, contemptuous, excites, expressions, mark, prudence, revenge, the threat of, Threats, weaken, weakening
«As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the fear of God is wanting, there the country will come to ruin, unless it be sustained the fear of the princ»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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Democracy
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Fear of God, observance, observances, republics, sustained
«Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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Law and lawyers,
Morality
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maintained, morals, observed
«Let no one oppose this belief of mine with that well-worn proverb: 'He who builds on the people builds on mud»
«There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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Truth
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flatteries, flattery, guarding, letting, offend, speaking
«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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