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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Niccolo Machiavelli
Philosophical, Deceit, Literature

Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

Niccolo Machiavelli
Literature, Prophet, Unarmed
"The Prince".

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

Niccolo Machiavelli
Philosophical, Opportunity, Literature

To know well the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to know well the nature of princes one must be of the people.

Niccolo Machiavelli
People, Literature
"The Portable Machiavelli".

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

Niccolo Machiavelli
Government, Elements, Literature

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.

Niccolo Machiavelli
Business, Doe, Literature

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Niccolo Machiavelli
Philosophical, Umpires, Literature
Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.28, Knickerbocker Classics

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

Niccolo Machiavelli
Fickle, Literature, May

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

Niccolo Machiavelli
Law, Foundation, Literature

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