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“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince 4970 likes like “If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince tags: political-philosophy 370 likes like “There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, Machiavelli Niccolo : Prince 291 likes like “it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince 251 likes like “The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince 227 likes like “The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince tags: philosophy 200 likes like “Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but 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 general opinion.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince 139 likes like “Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince 135 likes like “Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince 113 likes like “There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince tags: intelligence, knowledge 107 likes like “A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, Machiavelli Niccolo : Prince 107 likes like “…he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince 101 likes like “And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince tags: fear, love 97 likes like “How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince 95 likes like “Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince tags: deception 89 likes like “A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, Prince tags: philosophy 71 likes like “The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince 64 likes like “Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince 49 likes like “لا شيء أشد ضروره من أن يتظاهر الامير بالتدين ، فالناس عامة يحكمون بما يرون بأعينهم أكثر مما يحكمون بما يلمسون بإيديهم ، لأن كل امريء يستطيع أن يري ولكن قلة قليله تملك ان تلمس ما انت عليه.” ― نيقولو مكيافيللي, كتاب الامير 48 likes like “The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince tags: politics 45 likes like “Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince tags: philosophy, politics, revenge 42 likes like “Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince 41 likes like “Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.” ― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince 39 likes like “It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince 37 likes like “يحصل المرءعلي أول أنطباع عن حاكم وعقله حين يري الرجال الذين حوله.” ― نيقولو مكيافيللي, كتاب الامير 36 likes like “He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is easy for him to do, since all they ask is not to be oppressed” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince 33 likes like “A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince tags: philosophy, war 32 likes like “Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince 31 likes like “In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince tags: political-science, politics, strategy, warfare 30 likes like “For one change always leaves a dovetail into which another will fit.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:44:34 +0000

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