Author of quotes: Niccolo Machiavelli. Page 3

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Distance between how people live and how people should live, is so great that one who denies the real for the sake of justice, acts more in harm than in good.

Mistaken who thinks that new benefits will cause great personages to forget old grievances.

Of all the beasts let the Emperor be like two: the lion and the Fox. A lion is afraid of traps, and the Fox - wolves, therefore, we must be like the Fox to be able to get around the traps and a lion to frighten off wolves.

People are less afraid of offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear in them, because love is supported by the gratitude that people, being bad, can neglect for their own benefit, whereas fear is supported by the threat of punishment, which cannot be neglected.

For the friendship that is given for money, and is acquired not by greatness and nobility of soul that can be bought, but you can't hold to use it in time of need.

Minds are of three kinds: the one comprehends all that the other can understand what has happened to the first; the third he did not attain and comprehend others can not understand. The first mind - outstanding, the second is significant, the third is worthless.

The frequency of revelation of the truth cannot be erased: "Happiness is when people understand you".

It always happens that someone else's armor either wide or tight or too bulky.

Please accept that any solution is doubtful, for it is in order that to avoid one trouble and get into another.

Foolish people is that they often do not notice the poison within good appearance.

People are so ingenuous and so absorbed in the immediate needs that deceives will always find someone who will make a fool of yourself.

People by nature are such that not less attached to those who have done good to themselves, than to those who did welcome them.

The people, believing that the new Governor will appear better, willingly rise against old, but they soon become convinced by experience that disappointed, because the new Governor always appears worse old.