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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4591/">Quotes by <em>Machiavelli, Niccolo</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Niccol Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 - June 21, 1527) was a Florentine political philosopher, historian, musician, poet, and romantic comedic playwright. Machiavelli was also a key figure in realist political theory, crucial to European statecraft during the Renaissance. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better."

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"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."

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"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied."

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"The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes."

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"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."

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

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"Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation."

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"Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the tracks of others or emulate the prowess of their models. So a prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If his own prowess fails to compare with theirs, at least it has an air of greatness about it. He should behave like those archers who, if they are skilful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target."

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"Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony."

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"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."

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