• Feelings

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

  4.8 · 11 votes · 177 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  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 s

  3.4 · 32 votes · 118 reads

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• Society

  Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

  4.8 · 63 votes · 120 reads

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• Society

  Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see, but only a few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are, and those few do not dare take a stand against the g

  4.6 · 44 votes · 64 reads

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• Society

  Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

  3.7 · 39 votes · 70 reads

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• Government and Politics

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

  4.9 · 46 votes · 50 reads

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• Time

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

  4.9 · 11 votes · 156 reads

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• Nature

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

  3.7 · 59 votes · 102 reads

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• Society

  One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

  4.9 · 16 votes · 27 reads

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• Feelings

  Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

  3.6 · 7 votes · 165 reads

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• Countries

  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.

  3.8 · 19 votes · 32 reads

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• Time

  Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

  3.0 · 22 votes · 84 reads

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• Various

  The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

  3.9 · 21 votes · 34 reads

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• Time

  The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

  4.6 · 9 votes · 73 reads

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• Defects

  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 condemnatio

  3.1 · 55 votes · 133 reads

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• Virtues

  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

  3.0 · 9 votes · 100 reads

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• Government and Politics

  There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

  4.1 · 59 votes · 169 reads

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• Government and Politics

  There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

  4.1 · 57 votes · 15 reads

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What they wrote about

• Justice3 of their quotes
• Promises2 of their quotes
• Leaders2 of their quotes
• Wisdom1 of their quote
• Ambition1 of their quote
• Hatred1 of their quote