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Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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      ·  7 years ago 

    Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

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    People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

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    All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

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    Never was anything great achieved without danger.

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    i always tell myself TO EVERY GAIN THERE IS A LOSS and vice versa

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      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.

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        ·  7 years ago 

      awesome

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        There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.

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        The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

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        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.

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        Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.

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