108 ordspråk av Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
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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No one should therefore fear that he cannot accomplish what others have accomplished, for, men are born, live, and die in quite the same way they always have.
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.
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Politics have no relation to morals.
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
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Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
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Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
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So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied
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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
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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